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Rebecca had concluded her pilotage of M. Cantagnac and it was he whom Clemenceau soon after presented to his wife. "Let me add, M. Cantagnac, that you must be my guest as long as you stay at Montmorency, for the hotels are conducted solely for the excursionists who come out of Paris and their accommodations would not please you.
"Dear madame, do not do what you would eternally deplore," said Cantagnac quietly, and motioning with his broad hand for her to be seated again. "I deceived your husband with a bit of character acting which you would, I think, have applauded, as you were once on the stage the music hall stage, at least." She sat down, as if this allusion had stunned her.
Deeply frightened by this mystery which in vain she tried to solve, she forced a laugh. "Oh, it is no jest I am one of the most serious of men," proceeded Cantagnac, "as becomes one of the busiest." She looked at him like a fawn, which, having never seen a human being, is suddenly peered upon in the lair by the hunter. "You want to know who I am, speaking to you in this style?
"I thank you both," said M. Cantagnac, hastening to dry his tears which might have seemed of the crocodile sort when they had time to remember he had been a notary. "This is not my usual bearing!
In any case, the obstacle must be insurmountable, or she would not go away with me into strange countries through great fatigue on a chimerical search." Cantagnac had risen and, very courteously for his assumed character, had come round the table without going near his host and the Jewess, and entered into the other dialogue. "Did you say you were going far, monsieur?" he inquired.
This enormous, almost incalculable power is so perfectly under my thumb, monsieur, that not only is it manageable in the largest cannon, but it is suitable for a parlor pistol, which a child might play with." "Wonderful!" ejaculated Cantagnac, with undoubted sincerity, for his eyes gleamed. "In solving that last enigma, I found the power became more strong when curbed.
"Then, monsieur, I am where the plague have I put my card-case I am Guillaume Cantagnac, lately in business as a notary, but for the present, at the head of an enterprise for the purchase of landed estates, and their development by high culture for the ground and superior structures instead of their antiquated houses.
"Why, this is a force of nature, not man's work," said Cantagnac, through his grating teeth, as though the admiration were extracted from him. "I do not see how any army or any fort could resist such instruments." "No, monsieur, not one." "Would not all the other nations unite against your country?" "What would that matter, when, I repeat, the number of adversaries would not affect the question?"
He nodded, whereupon her features, which had been animated, fell back into habitual calm. "She sends word by Hedwig, whom I intercepted, that she wants to see you before seeing this purchaser of the house. I need not urge you to keep calm?" "No!" "Come this way, please, monsieur," said Rebecca, lightly, as if fully at ease, and she led Cantagnac out of the room.
Cantagnac tossed off the concentrated cordial with contempt; his head was not one to be affected by such potations. "Thank you! have you already opened the trenches?" he asked in an undertone. "By means of the Italian, yes. I have entered the stronghold." "But he closed the door in your face!" "No, no; I can open it at any time."
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