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Updated: May 12, 2025
At the English hospital Clyffurde would be splendidly looked after nowhere else could he find such sympathetic treatment! And Maurice with a light heart went back to the barracks in the rue des Comédiens, where he had a wash and had his uniform cleaned. Somewhat refreshed, though still very tired, he hurried round to the rue du Marais, where the Comte de Cambray had his lodgings.
The three friends had parted at the porte de Bonne, Emery to go to his friend Dumoulin, the glovemaker de Marmont to his lodgings in the rue Montorge, whilst Bobby Clyffurde rode straight back to Brestalou. A couple of hours later Victor de Marmont had also arrived at the castle.
Genis curtly. And Clyffurde began after a slight pause: "At the time that you fell upon me with such ill-considered vigour, M. de St. Genis," he said, "did you know that but for my abominable outrage upon the persons whom you honour, the money which they would gladly have guarded with their life would have fallen into the hands of Bonaparte's agents?"
"Neither on your side nor on the other, Captain," said Bobby Clyffurde with a slight tone of impatience. "I am a mere tradesman, as I have had the honour to tell you: a spectator at this game of political conflicts. M. de Marmont knows this well, else he had not asked me to accompany him to-day nor offered me a mount to enable me to do so.
A cheerful fire was burning in the monumental hearth and the soft light of the candles fixed in sconces round the walls tempered to a certain degree that bare and severe look of past grandeur which usually hung upon every corner of the old château. Clyffurde went up to the tall hearth.
Then again he stood still, and again faced the Englishman, his dark enquiring eyes seeming to probe the latter's deepest thoughts. "Did you know, Mr. Clyffurde," he asked slowly, "that Mlle. Crystal de Cambray honours me with her love?" "Yes. I knew that," replied the other quietly. "And I love her with my heart and soul," continued Maurice impetuously. "Oh!
He drank another draught of wine and gave a quick sigh of satisfaction with the world in general, and also with himself, for he did not feel that he had done or said anything which could offend the keenest susceptibilities of his friend. He looked with a sudden sense of astonishment at Clyffurde, as if he were only seeing him now for the first time.
"All you need say to M. le Comte," replied Clyffurde, with a slight tone of impatience, "is that you are personally satisfied that the money will reach His Majesty's hand safely, and in due course. At least, I presume that you are satisfied, M. de St. Genis," he continued, vaguely wondering what was going on in the young Frenchman's brain.
When he had gone at last, Crystal's thoughts veered back once more to Clyffurde and to his treachery. "What abominable deceit, ma tante!" she cried, and quite against her will tears of wrath and of disappointment rose to her eyes. "What villainy! what odious, execrable treachery!" Madame shrugged her shoulders and took up her knitting.
It was one sound coming from below which settled the dispute 'twixt heart and reason the sound of de Marmont's voice which though he was apparently speaking of indifferent matters had that same triumphant ring in it which Clyffurde had heard at Notre Dame de Vaulx this morning.
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