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The count seemed to be perfectly amazed at this audacity shown by a girl who was usually so timid. He said, "Then you detest, you envy, this Miss Brandon?" "I, father? Why should I? Great God! I only know that she cannot become the Countess Ville-Handry, she who has filled all Paris with evil reports." "Who has told you so? No doubt, M. Champcey." "Everybody has told me, father."
She shook her head, and then said very slowly, "If that is so, you will not refuse me a great favor. Carried away by her grief at seeing her father marry again, Miss Ville-Handry hates me. Will you promise me to use your influence in trying to persuade her to change her disposition towards me?" Never had honest Daniel Champcey been tried so hard. He answered diplomatically,
The two men had been so entirely preoccupied with their thoughts, that they were unconscious of the flight of time; and they were not a little astonished, therefore, when they now noticed that the day was gone, and night was approaching. The lawyer rose, and asked, returning Henrietta's letter to the doctor, "Is this the only one M. Champcey has received?"
"Well, I wish to ask you if you have ever suspected what my real reasons were for assisting you to escape?" "I think, sir, you have acted from kind pity for me, and also from friendship for M. Daniel Champcey." "No! You are entirely mistaken." She drew back instinctively, uttering only a low, "Ah!" Pale as he had been, M. de Brevan had become crimson. "Have you really noticed nothing?
Champcey did not send for one of those lazy Annamites to rub him, he came himself, and rubbed him till he brought back the heat and life itself. Now, you see, I want to do some little for him." "You would be a great scamp if you did not." The surgeon hardly left the wounded man himself.
I love you too dearly to exact your promise to be discreet. If you ever mention my name in connection with this affair, if you ever let any one suspect that you learned what I am going to tell you from me, you will dishonor yourself." Daniel, deeply moved, seized his friend's hand, and, pressing it most affectionately, said, "Ah, you know Daniel Champcey is to be relied upon."
"Nothing," he replied joyously, "but that Heaven itself declares in our favor. I went to the department. 'The Conquest' will remain another year in Cochin China; but M. Champcey is coming back to Europe. He was to have taken passage on board a merchant vessel, 'The Saint Louis, which is expected in Marseilles every day, if she has not already come in.
I should almost be disposed to answer for M. Champcey, if I had him in a good bed in the hospital at Saigon. At all events, we must try to get him there alive. Let one of you gentlemen tell the sailors who have come with us to make a litter of branches." The noise of a struggle, of fearful oaths and inarticulate cries, interrupted his orders.
Champcey may still be avenged." A smile of pleased pride appeared for a moment on the lips of the lawyer; but assuming his mask of impassiveness instantly again, as if he had been ashamed of his weakness, he said with delicate irony, "I really think human justice may this time reach the guilty. But wait before you congratulate me."
Thus she struggled on quite alone, for she had not a soul in whom she could confide, when one afternoon, as she was going down stairs, a servant came to tell her that there was a young man in naval uniform below, who desired to have the honor of waiting upon her. The servant handed her his card; she took it, and read, "Daniel Champcey." It was Daniel, Peter's brother.
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