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My foot was already on the threshold, and I was composing my face to meet the enemy, when I heard a movement behind me. The next moment her hand was on my arm. 'Wait! Wait a moment! Come back! she panted. I turned. The smile and flush had vanished; her face was pale. 'No! she said abruptly. 'I was wrong! I, will not have it. I will have no part in it! You planned it last night, M. de Barthe.
'You fool! I cried at last, 'you fool! And then M. de Cocheforet, who had come out of the hut and taken his stand at my elbow, interrupted me. 'Pardon me one moment, he said, airily, looking at the Lieutenant with raised eyebrows and pointing to me with his thumb, 'but I am puzzled between you. This gentleman's name? Is it de Berault or de Barthe?
DUKE DE TREVISE. M. de Pontecoulant, is he not? MARQUIS DE LAPLACE. NO, President Boyer. He is ninety-two. PRESIDENT BARTHE. He is older than that. BARON D'OBERLIN. He no longer comes to the Chamber. M. VIENNET. They say that M. Rossi is returning from Rome. DUKE DE FESENZAC. Well, I pity him for quitting Rome. It is the finest and most amiable city in the world. I hope to end my days there.
"You cannot prevent men from drinking any more than you can prevent them from swearing or indulging in any other vice," continued Colonel De Barthe, "but you can diminish the amount of vice by judicious measures, and that we believe is being done by our institutes, with their libraries, reading-rooms, lunch-rooms, cafes, amusement-rooms, bars, theaters for concerts, lectures and amateur dramatic performances.
I am so deep in trouble and so gnawed by terror that I cannot feel anything keenly to-night, either shame or gratitude. I am in a dream; God grant that it may pass as a dream! We are sunk in trouble. But for you and what you have done, M. de Barthe I she paused and I heard her fighting with the sobs which choked her 'forgive me... I am overwrought.
Many ages, however, had elapsed, since its first institution, when the Father Abbot de Rancé, the celebrated reformer of his time, determined to become a member, whose singular history and conversion was the subject of a poem by Monsieur Barthe. The Abbé de Rancé became a Monk of the Benedictin order of La Trappe, in 1660, and his conversion was attributed to a lady whom he tenderly loved.
They had both eventful lives; for Baron Louis, who had been in orders, and Talleyrand officiated at the Champs de Mars when Louis the Sixteenth took the oath to maintain the constitution. Field-Marshal Macdonald, Duc de Tarante, and his son-in-law, the Duc de Massa; Admiral de Rigny, Minister of Marine; M. Barthe, Garde des Sceaux; and the Bouvards, father and son, formed the party.
Colonel De Barthe, secretary of military affairs in the cabinet of the viceroy, to whom I was sent for information on this subject, said: "The lives of the British soldiers in India are very tedious and trying, especially during the hot summers, which, in the greater part of the empire, last for several months. The climate is enervating and is apt to reduce moral as well as physical vitality.
For a moment I stood aghast, peering after her shadowy figure, and wondering what had taken her. Then, in a minute or less, she came quickly back to me, and I understood. She was crying. 'M. de Barthe, she said, in a trembling voice, which told me that the victory was won, 'is there nothing else? Have you no other penance for me? 'None, Mademoiselle.
You should have known this, and considered it, she continued. 'Whereas I do not say that you are a braggart, M. de Barthe. But on this one occasion you seem to have played the part of one. 'Madame, I did not think, I stammered. 'Want of thought causes much evil, she answered, smiling. 'However, I have spoken, and we trust that while you stay with us you will be more careful.
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