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There was no question of Cardillac's sincerity. Craven was sitting four places lower down; he had turned the other way and was talking eagerly to some man on his farther side but the eyes that had met Olva's two minutes before had been hostile. Cardillac went on: "Come in to coffee afterwards, Dune; several men are coming in." Olva thanked him and said that he would.
If they refused to consider them, they must not complain if they find the next world but little to their fancy. No one had ever attacked Olva before on this subject. His reserve had been more alarming to the Soul Hunters than the coarse violence of a Cardillac or a Carfax. And now Bunning Bunning of all people in this ridiculous world had ventured. Well, there was pluck necessary for that.
I conjure you as a son would a mother, in the glow of filial affection to send the necklace and bracelets to Master René Cardillac, on some pretence or other say, to have something altered, or improved. Your welfare -your very life depend on your doing this. If you do not comply before the day after to-morrow, I will force my way into your house, and kill myself before your eyes."
"Oh, no; the attendants take them out sometimes. I prefer, however, to let them go only with Gyuri, for I can depend upon him more than upon any of the others." "Then he and Cardillac have been out together occasionally?" "Oh, yes, quite frequently. But pardon me this is almost like a cross-examination." "I beg your pardon, doctor, it's a bad habit of mine.
Madelon had left us, and I was going to the workshop 'Sit still, lad, cried Cardillac, 'no more work to-day; let's drink the health of the most worthy and charming lady in all Paris. When we had clinked our glasses, and he had emptied a bumper, he said: 'Tell me, Olivier, how do you like those lines? 'Un amant qui craint les voleurs N'est point digne d'amour.
Here there was interruption. Several men came rattling; laughing and shouting, down the staircase behind Lawrence and Olva. "Oh, damn!" said Lawrence, slowly turning round upon them. Cardillac was there, also Bobby Galleon, Rupert Craven, and one or two more. Cardillac shouted. "Hullo, Lawrence, old man. Is it true, as they say, that you've been sitting at the feet of our dearly beloved Gregg?
"That shows that you don't care.... You are cruel and hard, Peter.... I am going to Jerry in Paris...." "Jerry that's Cardillac, you know, Bobby. He's in Paris and she's going over to him because she can't stand me any more. She says I don't care about her. Isn't that funny, when I love her so much?" Bobby went to him, put his arm round his neck
That was the opinion of my poor friend also, my poor murdered friend." "The pastor?" "The pastor. He often invited Cardillac to come to the rectory with me." "Indeed. Then Cardillac knew the inside of the rectory?" "Yes. The pastor used to lend him books and let him choose them himself from the library shelves. The people in the village are very kind to my poor patients here.
I have carried all that I had into France in a wallet, and it hath taken four sumpter-mules to carry it back again. God's benison on the man who first turned his hand to the making of war! But there, down in the dingle, is the church of Cardillac, and you may see the inn where three poplars grow beyond the village. Let us on, for a stoup of wine would hearten us upon our way."
But, be the matter as it may, that which I am enjoined in this letter to do, I certainly shall do, were it for nothing else than to be rid of those fatal jewels, which seem to me as if they must be some diabolical talisman of the Prince of Darkness's very own. Cardillac is not very likely to let them out of his hands again, if once he gets hold of them."
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