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Updated: June 19, 2025
Go to the Bons-Hommes, and find out all you can of the lady we saw there; and return to me as quickly as you can; I shall count the minutes." Monsieur d'Albon mounted his horse at once, and galloped to the old abbey. When he arrived there, he saw before the iron gate a tall, spare man with a very kindly face, who answered in the affirmative when asked if he lived there.
To these questions and several others which the two friends alternately addressed to her, she answered only with guttural sounds that seemed more like the growl of an animal than the voice of a human being. "She must be deaf and dumb," said the marquis. "Bons-Hommes!" cried the peasant woman. "Ah! I see. This is, no doubt, the old monastery of the Bons-Hommes," said the marquis.
"I am no longer ill," replied the colonel, simply. "This news has quieted my suffering. What pain can I feel when I think of Stephanie? I am going to the Bons-Hommes, to see her, speak to her, cure her. She is free. Well, happiness will smile upon us or Providence is not in this world. Think you that that poor woman could hear my voice and not recover reason?"
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