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As he left my mother and myself, Monsieur Doltaire came back with Bigot, and, approaching the Governor, they led him away, engaging at once in serious talk. One thing I noticed: as monsieur and Bigot came up, I could see monsieur eying the Intendant askance, as though he would read treachery; for I feel sure that it was Bigot who contrived to have monsieur shut up in the chest-room.
But come, he added, 'where do you think I have been? It was hard to answer him gaily, and yet it must be done, and so I said, 'You have probably put yourself in prison, that you should not keep your tiny boast. 'I have been in prison, he answered, 'and I was on the wrong side, with no key even locked in a chest-room of the Intendance, he explained, 'but as yet I do not know by whom, nor am I sure why.
But come, he added, 'where do you think I have been? It was hard to answer him gaily, and yet it must be done, and so I said, 'You have probably put yourself in prison, that you should not keep your tiny boast. 'I have been in prison, he answered, 'and I was on the wrong side, with no key even locked in a chest-room of the Intendance, he explained, 'but as yet I do not know by whom, nor am I sure why.
As he left my mother and myself, Monsieur Doltaire came back with Bigot, and, approaching the Governor, they led him away, engaging at once in serious talk. One thing I noticed: as monsieur and Bigot came up, I could see monsieur eying the Intendant askance, as though he would read treachery; for I feel sure that it was Bigot who contrived to have monsieur shut up in the chest-room.
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