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"At first, when I saw myself so well received, I was quite overcome. Then reflecting, I thought, 'It is not natural for him to be so soft. He is getting ready for some trick. Keep your eyes open, Bagnolet. "'Then you are not angry that I spoke to you; eh? He laughs, and says, 'No.
"Chevassat said a few words to his coachman, who whipped the horse, and there he was, promenading down the boulevard, turning his cane this way, puffing out big clouds of smoke, as if he had not the colic at the thought that his friend Bagnolet was following on his heels. "I ought to say that he had lots of friends, very genteel friends, who wished him good-evening as they passed him.
If Daniel dies, you will be bound to release that scamp, the wretched murderer whom you keep imprisoned, that man Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet; for there will be no evidence. Or, if you send him before a court, he will be declared guilty of involuntary homicide. And yet you know, as well as I do, he has wantonly fired at one of the noblest creatures I have ever known.
'You shall keep your name, he said, touching me on the shoulder. 'You shall always remain Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet; and you shall have your papers as engraver on metal as perfect as anybody can have them. "And, to be sure, the second day after that he gave me a set of papers, signatures, seals, all in perfect order." "The papers found in your room, you mean?" asked the lawyer. "Exactly."
Crochard, surnamed Bagnolet, made such a sudden and violent start, that the surgeon thought he was going to attack the magistrate. He felt he had been caught in a net the meshes of which were drawing tighter and tighter around him; and these apparently inoffensive questions assumed suddenly a terrible meaning. "Just answer me in one word," said the magistrate.
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