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I went below, and wandered through the cabins, under the front awning, and along the guard-ways. I scanned every face with an eagerness that to some must have appeared impertinence. Wherever one was young and handsome, he was an object of my scrutiny and jealousy. There were several such among the male passengers; and I endeavoured to distinguish those who had come aboard at Bringiers.
A look, a whisper, a silent pressure of the hand, and I hurried away; but the return of that pressure, slight and almost imperceptible as it was, fired my veins with delight; and I walked on towards the gate with the proud step of a conqueror. "Aurore loves me!" The thought thus expressed was of younger date than the day of my removing to Bringiers from the plantation.
I perceived that she was doing her best to back, and put round toward us; but she was still several hundred yards off! In consequence of the Belle having steered a while towards the Bringiers landing, the boats no longer ran in the same track; and, although they were head and head at the moment of the explosion, they were separated from each other by a wide stretch of the river.
Bringiers is near; promise that you will visit us often in fact, every day?" I need not say that the promise was freely and joyfully given. "Now," said she, "since you have given that promise, with less regret I can say adieu!" She extended her hand for a parting salute. I took her fingers in mine, and respectfully kissed them.
"Oh, no! besides, I have business in Bringiers that will occupy me all the day." "Ah!" "Doubt not my return to meet you. I am certain to procure either horses or a carriage. Half-an-hour after twilight you will find me at the end of the bye-road. Fear not, Monsieur! I have a strong presentiment that for you all will yet be well. For me ah!" A deep sigh escaped him as he uttered the last phrase.
Scipio's man was no doubt the same. The name was too rare a one to be borne by two individuals; besides, I had heard that he was owner of a plantation somewhere up the coast at Bringiers, I remembered. The probabilities were it was he. If so, and Mademoiselle Besancon had no other friend, then, indeed, had Scipio spoken truly when he said, "She hab no friends leff."
The United States is no exception to the rule; and I had reason to know that on account of this absurd rumour I was not very favourably regarded by some of the young planters and dandy storekeepers who loitered about the streets of Bringiers. I rode on without heeding the "black looks" that were cast upon me, and indeed soon ceased thinking of them.
At length an idea suggested itself a plan so feasible that I could not help communicating it to D'Hauteville, who like myself was awake. The plan was simple enough, and I only wondered I had not thought of it sooner. What could be better than this? There would be no difficulty in his obtaining the horses at Bringiers the carriage more likely.
This would carry me to Bringiers by a back way, and stepping off from the verandah, I passed through the wicket, and directed myself towards the stables in the rear. I soon reached the stables, where I was welcomed by a low whimper from my horse. Scipio was not there. "He is gone upon some other business," thought I; "perhaps to meet the carriage. No matter, I shall not summon him.
In this way we passed through the woods, across the fields, along the road leading into Bringiers, and then to the residence of "Squire" Claiborne Justice of the Peace for that district. Attached to his dwelling was a large room or office where the Squire was used to administer the magisterial law of the land.
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