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Updated: May 16, 2025
"God's thunder! mademoiselle, that fellow who rode here with you came back to warn me that the travellers in the mail-coach had all been murdered by the Chouans; I knew that, but what I didn't know was the name of the murdered persons, it was Gua de Saint-Cyr!" "Oh! if Corentin is at the bottom of all this, nothing surprises me," she cried, with a gesture of disgust.
She did not finish her thought, but with a look of despair she turned and re-entered the Porte Saint-Leonard, where Hulot and Corentin were awaiting her. "Two more days," she cried, "and then " She stopped, observing that they were not alone "he shall fall under your guns," she whispered to Hulot.
With the patience of a cat watching a mouse Corentin was there in the same place on the following morning, attentive to the slightest noise, and subjecting the passers-by to the closest examination. The day that was now beginning was a market-day.
But it will be at the risk of my life, a price has been set on my head these six years past.... Lucien free, rich, and married to Clotilde de Grandlieu, and my task on earth will be done; I shall no longer try to save my skin. My persecutor was a spy under your late King." "What, Corentin?" "Ah! Is his name Corentin? Thank you, monsieur. Well, will you promise to do as I ask you?"
Just then the party from the stables returned. Laurence went up to Madame d'Hauteserre, who recovered her senses enough to say: "The penalty is death!" "Death!" repeated Laurence, looking at the four gentlemen. The word excited a general terror, of which Giguet, formerly instructed by Corentin, took immediate advantage.
Corentin chose Gondreville as the place of rendezvous, and directed the captain to send some of his men at night in four detachments to different points of the valley of Cinq-Cygne at sufficient distance from each other to cause no alarm. These four pickets were to form a square and close in around the chateau of Cinq-Cygne.
"Really and truly! I may have absolution for the past and a promise of succeeding to you if I give sufficient evidence of my intelligence?" "Between two such men as we are there can be no misunderstanding," said Corentin, with a lordly air that might have taken anybody in. "And the price of the bargain is, I suppose, the surrender of those three packets of letters?" said Jacques Collin.
Noticing the box, now in the hands of Corentin, the countess raised her whip and sprang rapidly towards him. Striking his hands with so violent a blow that the casket fell to the ground, she seized it, flung it into the middle of the fire, and stood with her back to the chimney in a threatening attitude before either of the agents recovered from their surprise.
However, the departure of Corentin seemed to lessen the young man's distrust, and he began to cast on Mademoiselle de Verneuil certain looks which betrayed an immoderate admiration for women, rather than the respectful warmth of a dawning passion. The young girl grew more and more reserved, and gave all her attentions to Madame du Gua.
Oh, why did I get into a habit of dining at Very's, of drinking choice wines, of singing La Mere Godichon, of gambling when I am in funds? To get a place and keep it, as Corentin says, it is not enough to be clever, you must have the gift of management.
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