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But I thought of Monsieur's wonderful patience, and I cried: "Shame!" "What now?" "To speak like that of Monsieur." "Enfin, it is true. He is none the worse for that. But I suppose if Monsieur had a cloven hoof one must not mention it." "One would get his head broken." "Oh, you Broux!" he cried out. "I have not seen you for half a year. I had forgotten that with you the St.
The grilles were closed as before, but the sentry's face, luckily, was strange to me. "Open! open!" I shouted, breathless. "I must see M. le Duc!" "Who are you?" he demanded, staring. "My name is Broux. I have news for M. le Duc. Let me in. It is a matter of life and death." "Why, I suppose, then, I must let you in," that good fellow answered, drawing back the bolts. "But you must wait here till "
"Félix Broux," he said to me, "you have been following a bad plan. No man can run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. You are either my loyal servant or my enemy, one thing or the other. Now I am loath to hurt you. You have seen how I am loath to hurt you. I give you one more chance to be honest. Go and think it over. If in half an hour you have decided that you are my true man, well and good.
"That is likely true," said Vigo, "for he was ready to kill the men who barred his way." "You were in a plot to kill my secretary!" "Ah, Monsieur!" I cried. "You Félix Broux!" I curled with shame. "M. Lucas had struck me," I muttered; "I thought the fight was fair enough. And they threatened my life." Monsieur's contemptuous eyes shrivelled me as flame shrivels a leaf. "You a Broux of St.
"That does not help me, my good Vigo. I cannot torture a Broux." "There Monsieur is wrong. The lad has been disloyal and insolent, if he is a Broux." "Granted, Vigo," said M. le Duc. But he did not add, "Fetch the boot." Vigo went on with steady persistence. "He has not been loyal to Monsieur and his interests in refusing to tell what he knows.
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