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He had been running, and panted heavily; but he had kept his wits, and the instant I, appeared he grasped my sleeve. 'Ah! Monsieur, the very man! he cried. 'Quick! come this instant, lose not a moment, and you may yet be first. They have the secret! The soldiers have found Monsieur! 'Found him? I echoed. 'M. de Cocheforet? 'No; but they know the place where he lies. It was found by accident.
While he arranged my clothes, he looked round the room with an air of distaste, and muttered once or twice that the furniture of the principal chambers was packed away. 'M. de Cocheforet is abroad, I think? I said as I dressed. 'And likely to remain there, the man answered carelessly, shrugging his shoulders. 'Monsieur will doubtless have heard that he is in trouble.
It was not likely that M. de Cocheforet would repeat his visit so soon; and, besides, the women's emotions had been those of pure dismay and grief, unmixed with any of the satisfaction to which such a meeting, though snatched by stealth, must give rise. I discarded my first thought therefore that he had returned unexpectedly and I sought for another solution.
'I do not wish to be in that affair. But yes; there is one thing I have not mentioned. You are right. She sighed so deeply that I caught the sound. 'It is, I continued slowly, 'that you will permit me to remain at Cocheforet for a few days while the soldiers are here. I am told that there are twenty men and two officers quartered in your house. Your brother is away.
The room, with its low roof and earthen floor, and foul clothes flung here and there, reeked of stale meals and garlic and vile cooking. I thought of the parlour at Cocheforet, and the dainty table, and the stillness, and the scented pot-herbs; and though I was too old a soldier to eat the worse because my spoon lacked washing, I felt the change, and laid it savagely at Mademoiselle's door.
'It was an oversight, he stammered 'Clon is accustomed to lock the door, and he did it inadvertently, forgetting that there was anyone 'Inside, I said drily. 'Precisely, Monsieur. 'Ah! I replied. 'Well, I do not think the oversight would please Madame de Cocheforet if she heard of it? 'If Monsieur would have the kindness not to
He grinned as he spoke, and it was with difficulty I suppressed my wrath. 'Mademoiselle de Cocheforet told you, I said, affecting indifference, 'where I was? 'Ay, Mademoiselle or Madame, he replied, grinning afresh. So she had told him; where she had left me, and how she had tricked me! She had, made me the village laughing-stock!
Those words made me happy. I carried her to the bank, my heart on fire, and laid her against it just as M. de Cocheforet rode up. He sprang from his horse, his eyes blazing, 'What is this? he cried. 'What have you been saying to her, man? 'She will tell you, I answered drily, my composure returning under his eye. 'Amongst other things, that you are free.
'To arrest M. de Cocheforet? 'To arrest M. de Cocheforet. 'Well you surprise me, he said. Only that; but he spoke so drily that I felt the blood rush to my face. 'Take care, Monsieur, I said severely. 'Do not presume too far on the inconvenience to which your death might put me. He shrugged his shoulders. 'No offence, he said.
The heroine's charms recall Mlle. de Cocheforet in 'Under the Red Robe, and she proves herself a maid of spirit through all the mishaps which befall her. One of the most notable things about 'The Castle Inn' is the way in which Mr. Weyman has caught the spirit of the age, and manages to imbue his readers with its feeling."
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