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The son of Bras-Rouge, protecting his light with the hollow of his hand, and preceding the old woman, descended slowly a flight of steep stone steps, leading to the entrance of the cellar. Arrived at the foot, Tortillard appeared to hesitate about following La Chouette. "Well! lazybones, go on," said she, turning round.
The little cripple recommenced the stamping of his feet, and cried, "Why don't you begin? Up with the curtain! Go ahead, will you, now? Music, music!" "La Chouette, you can no longer deafen me with your cries," said the Schoolmaster, after some minutes, during which he had succeeded in gagging the old woman.
"Very well or but I do not know where he gets so much money from; when he came here with La Chouette, he showed us some gold pieces of twenty francs." "How impudent he looked when he told us, 'You could have just the same, if you were not little duffers." "Duffers?" "Yes, that means stupid fools." "Oh, yes! true." "Forty francs in gold how many fine things I would buy with that!
The former he had rescued from her wretchedness and provided with a home on a farm at Bouqueval, whence she had been abducted by Chouette and comrades of hers, by orders of Jacques Ferrand, who wanted her put out of the way. Snatched from death, the exhausted girl now lay, but a little this side of life's confines, in the house of Dr.
Come, decide. I know If you swear you will keep your oath." "And you have sworn?" "Alas! yes, madame; I feared so much to be disfigured by La Chouette, or to be drowned in a cellar; that appeared to me so frightful. Any other kind of death would nave appeared less fearful. I should not, perhaps, have endeavored to escape."
"The Goualeuse! yes! that is the name the woman mentioned this woman called La Chouette. Dead dead!" cried Sarah, still motionless, her eyes fixed and glaring; "they have killed her!" "Sarah!" replied Rudolph, as pale and alarmed as she, "calm yourself answer me La Goualeuse this girl whom you caused to be carried off by La Chouette from Bouqueval, was " "Our child!" "She!"
No remorse on thinking that she herself had torn her from the peaceful retreat where Rudolph had placed her. This unnatural mother did not at once interrogate La Chouette with terrible anxiety as to the past life of her child. No; ambition with Sarah had for a long time stifled maternal tenderness.
The reader knows that Jacques Ferrand, having formally refused to enter into this plot, in spite of Sarah's threats, had resolved to make away with Fleur-de-Marie, as much from dread of the revelations of La Chouette, as from fear of the countess.
They say there has been a whole heap of murderers there; that they were a band of assassins; that La Chouette, one of the friends of old Burette, has been strangled; and that if help had not arrived in time, Mathieu the diamond broker would have been murdered. Ain't this news?" "Bras-Rouge arrested! La Chouette dead!" said Rudolph to himself, with astonishment. "Poor Fleur-de-Marie is avenged."
Hastily opening a secretary, Sarah took from it an ebony casket, which she placed on a desk in the middle of the room, and made a sign for La Chouette to come near her. The casket contained many jewel-boxes placed one on the other, inclosing magnificent ornaments.
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