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"Y a des honnêtes gens partout," he was just chanting for the twentieth time; when up got the Commissary upon his feet and waved brutally to the singer with his cane. "Is it me you want?" inquired Léon, stopping in his song. "It is you," replied the potentate. "Fichu Commissaire!" thought Léon, and he descended from the stage and made his way to the functionary.
Having described circumstantially the extent of the injury and its probable cause, he replied to a question of the commissaire, that no entreaty could persuade the wounded man to give any explanation of the occurrence, nor mention the name of his adversary.
"Ay! they made no secret of it; but I am convinced La Barre has more definite instructions to give in private, for he asked the Commissaire to come to him later for conference. I felt that you should be told, Monsieur." De Artigny leaned motionless against the window ledge, and the light streaming in through the opening of the draperies revealed the gravity of his expression.
"He is rough," I protested, "for his life has been hard, yet has given me no reason to complain. 'Tis because the life is lonely that I grow old." "No doubt, and the younger gallant? He is not of the forest school?" "'Twas Monsieur Cassion, Commissaire for the Governor." "Ah! 'tis through him you have invitation to the great ball?"
"More!" repeated Jean with alarm. "Would you rather not have it?" Marie, who had not taken her eyes from him, advanced with her hands pressed upon her heart. "Courage, my friend," she said breathlessly. "Yes, M. le Commissaire, we will hear." It had struck her that he was smiling. He began to read in his sing-song voice, "Fort, convicted of forgery, died last month in the Grande Roquette.
"Sit down!" he bellowed as I advanced toward the pen door, and tried to open it. When he resumed his scratching I did my best to explain in a German-French-Dutch dialect of my own invention that we wished to see Mons. le Commissaire at once; that we had only come to inspect the concentration camp of German and Belgian prisoners, and that we were leaving town that day.
Cassion?" "By himself, or some emissary. Père Allouez has been my jailor, but chances to be disabled at present. The Commissaire permitted me to climb here alone, believing you to be safely camped above the rapids, yet his suspicions may easily revive." "His suspicions!" the Sieur laughed softly. "So that then is the trouble?
While she thus anticipated the purpose of the plaintiff, her information was interrupted by the arrival of the party himself, who exhibited his complaint with such evident marks of perturbation, anger, and impatience, that the commissaire could easily perceive that he had no share in the disappearance of his wife, and directed him to the lieutenant de police, whose province it is to take cognizance of such occurrences.
"Silence, monsieur. I call upon you, explicitly, to moderate your tone and pay proper deference to my authority." With this the commissary pulled out a drawer, extracted a tricolour sash and slowly buckled it round his waist, then once more turned interrogatively to the sergeant: "It is nothing very serious, M. le Commissaire," said the treacherous gendarme.
"That Christine Daae was carried off by an angel, M. LE COMMISSAIRE and I can tell you his name." "Aha, M. le Vicomte de Chagny! So you maintain that Christine Daae was carried off by an angel: an angel of the Opera, no doubt?" "Yes, monsieur, by an angel of the Opera; and I will tell you where he lives ... when we are alone." "You are right, monsieur."
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