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By morning, too, Tressan found that the intervening space of the night, since he had seen Madame de Condillac, had cooled his ardour very considerably. He had reached the incipient stages of regret of his rash promise. When Captain d'Aubran was announced to him, he bade them ask him to come again in an hour's time.
Marie, who was between eight and nine years old, had a good person and quick apprehension, was giddy, lively, playful and mischievous; but his mischief was ever good-humored. The younger one, named Condillac, appeared stupid and fretful, was headstrong as a mule, and seemed incapable of instruction.
He began by what he conceived to be the more urgent measure, and stepping across to the Palais Seneschal, he demanded to see Monsieur de Tressan at once. Ushered into the Lord Seneschal's presence, he startled that obese gentleman by the announcement that he had returned from Condillac with Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye, and that he would require an escort to accompany them to Paris.
Garnache's long chin sank on to his breast, and he stood there, his eyes upon the tablecloth, his thoughts with the poor innocent child who waited at Condillac, so full of trust and faith and loyalty to this betrothed of hers who had come home with a wife out of Italy. And then, while he stood so and Florimond was regarding him curiously, the door opened, and the host appeared.
What he and Marius said, Rabecque could not make out, but he distinctly heard the landlord's answer delivered with a respectful bow to Marius: "Bien, Monsieur de Condillac. I would not interfere in your concerns not for the world. I will be blind and deaf."
The soul has only one original faculty, that of sensation; all the others, theoretical and practical alike, are acquired, i.e., they have gradually developed from the former. Condillac is related to Locke as Fichte to Kant; in the former case the transition is mediated by Browne, in the latter by Reinhold.
Do it, madame, and do it now, or by the Heaven above us, you shall come to Paris with me, and you'll not find them nice there. It will avail you little to storm and shout at them that you are Marquise de Condillac. As a murderess and a rebel shall you be tried, and as both or either it is odds you will be broken on the wheel and your son with you. So make your choice, madame." He ceased.
"I take it, madame, that you wish me to understand that Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye, repenting of her letter, desires no longer to repair to Paris; desires, in fact, to remain here at Condillac in your excellent care." "You apprehend the position exactly, monsieur." "To my mind," said he, "it presents few features difficult of apprehension."
"I know not whether it is the fever makes your tongue run so " he began, when the other broke in, a sudden light of understanding in his eyes. "You are at fault," he cried. "I have no fever." "But then your letter to Condillac?" demanded Garnache, lost now in utter amazement. "What of it? I'll swear I never said I had a fever." "I'll swear you did." "You give me the lie, then?"
The only danger that she knew was the danger that threatened Florimond, and little did that matter since at midnight she was to leave Condillac to reach La Rochette in time to warn her betrothed. The knowledge gave her confidence and an added courage. "You have offered me your bargain," she told him. "You have named your price and you have heard my refusal. Now go."
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