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And D'Harmental and Pompadour, having taken leave of the duchess, retired laughing, followed by the Abbe Brigaud, who reckoned on them to drive him home. "Well," said Madame de Maine, addressing the Cardinal de Polignac, "does your eminence still find it such a terrible thing to conspire?"
"I hope that is business well done," said the Abbe Brigaud. "Yes, my dear abbe," replied D'Harmental; "but if the regent does not give us greater opportunities than that for executing our enterprise, it will not be easy for us to take him to Spain." "Patience, patience," said Brigaud; "if there had been an opportunity to-day you would not have been able to profit by it." "No; you are right."
"But where can we find such a man?" said the prince. "It is not a thing for which we can take the first comer." "If I dared," said the Abbe Brigaud. "Dare, abbe! dare!" said the duchess. "I should say that I know the man you want." "Did I not tell you," said Pompadour, "that the abbe was a precious man?" "But is he really what we want?" said Polignac.
Two hours after this little accident which was not sufficient to disturb the fete in any way D'Harmental was brought back to Paris by the Abbe Brigaud, and re-entered his little attic in the Rue du Temps-Perdu, from which he had been absent six weeks.
"Thank you," said Valef, "for your assistance, which is very seasonable, for I was just going away, convinced that Brigaud must have made a mistake, and that no Christian could live at such a height, and in such a pigeon-hole. I must certainly bring Madame de Maine here, that she may know what she owes you."
Then a Count de Laval, a Marquis de Pompadour, a Baron de Valef, the Prince de Cellamare, the Abbe Brigaud, that abominable Abbe Brigaud! Think of my having copied the list." "My father," said Bathilde, shuddering with fear, "my father, among all those names, did you not see the name the name of Chevalier Raoul d'Harmental?"
The poor woman was not without her own anxieties; for some time she had suspected that the Abbe Brigaud was mixed up in some plot, and what she had just learned, that D'Harmental was not a poor student but a rich colonel, confirmed her conjectures, since it had been Brigaud who had introduced him to her.
After exchanging a hundred vows, the two young people separated, agreeing, that if anything new happened to either of them, whatever hour of the day or night it might be, they should let the other know directly. At the door of Madame Denis's house D'Harmental met Brigaud. The sitting was over, and nothing positive was yet known, but vague rumors were afloat that terrible measures had been taken.
"Well, I shall say," said Brigaud, "that you are a brave and loyal gentleman, and that if there were ten like you in France, all would soon be finished; but we are not here to pay compliments: get in quickly where shall I take you?" "It is useless," said D'Harmental; "I will go on foot." "Get in. It is safer." D'Harmental complied, and Brigaud, dressed as he was, came and sat beside him.
Still, this was not the time for long leave-takings; Brigaud desired that daylight should find him as far as possible from Paris. He took leave of the Denis family, and set out with Boniface, who declared that he would accompany friend Brigaud as far as the barrier.
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