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It has become almost vital for Napoleon to obtain it. He has tried to get it already. Since it reposed in the strong box at the Chateau of Blanzy, it has cost him five men. It has cost me new halliards and rigging for the Eclipse, and Brutus a disfigured countenance not that I am complaining. Someone shall pay me for it. And the game is just beginning, my son. Mr.
For a moment she favored me with an incurious glance. "I was unable to see you on the ship, captain, and I wanted to have a word with you at the first opportunity. Otherwise I would not have favored you with a tableau of the house of Blanzy. I wanted to speak with you alone." She had declined the chair I offered her, and was standing facing him, her eyes almost on a level with his.
Evidently a similar thought was running through my father's mind. "Ah, Mademoiselle," he said swiftly in the French tongue, "stay where you are! Stay but a moment! For as you stand there in the shadows, you epitomize the whole house of Blanzy, their grace, their pride, their beauty." She tried to suppress a smile, but only half succeeded.
She bowed her head, and tugged more violently than ever at the corner of her handkerchief. "Mademoiselle," I said unsteadily, "Mademoiselle, what was it he told you at Blanzy?" "I cannot tell you if you do not know," she answered, "Indeed I cannot." "But you will!" I cried. "You will, Mademoiselle! You must! Mademoiselle " Her eyes had met mine again.
He is serious, Monsieur, and you must leave him alone, or perhaps I shall not get the paper after all, and remember, I must have it. My brother must have it, and he shall, only you must not disturb him. He may shoot at the town, if he cares to, or murder your uncle. He has often spoken of it at Blanzy, but the paper is another matter. You must leave it to me." "To you!" I cried.
You should have known better than to say that. Suppose " her voice choked a little, as though the words hurt her "suppose I bade you recall, captain, what you said on the stairs at Blanzy, when they were at the door and you were going to meet them. Do you remember?" My father smiled, and made a polite little gesture of assumed despair.
I listened to him, Mademoiselle, just as I have been listening to him all this morning." "And yet," she said, "it is your fault. Usually he is most well behaved. He is moderate, Monsieur. At Blanzy a glass of wine at dinner was all he ever desired. For days at a time, I have hardly heard him say a word. The Marquis would call him the Sphinx, and what has he been doing here?
"Mademoiselle," I said, "I have been awkward, but forgive me the cabin of the Sea Tern, where you asked him to sail on, and when you bade him recall what he said on the stairs at Blanzy.... Your pardon! I have been very blunt." And now she was regarding me with blank astonishment. "Surely he told you," she murmured, "Surely he told you what the Marquis had intended."
Can you not guess it? It was a pleasure to take you from Blanzy. It is business now, and they cannot be combined. "Listen, Mademoiselle," he continued. "Not three miles off the harbor mouth is a French ship tacking back and forth, and not entirely for pleasure. Around this house at present are enough men to run your estates at Blanzy.
The lead horses were killed, and in an instant they were at the doors. They flung them open, but he was not inside. Instead, the coach was filled with the consular police. The paper, the paper they had signed, was at Blanzy, and your father had agreed to rescue it in case of accident. He would not leave me, Monsieur, and he would not destroy the paper."
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