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"But how is it with her ladyship, commander?" asked Coucou doubtfully; "is she satisfied?" "Ask her yourself," said Monte-Cristo. "Madame," Coucou said turning toward Haydee, "you have a brave husband, and as long as Coucou lives nobody shall touch a hair of his head!" Haydee smiled amid her tears, and the count said: "Coucou here is my son, he will accompany us!"
The lion-killer is invincible!" After an exhausting ride of three long hours they beheld the minarets of Uargla. Monte-Cristo divided his men in two companies; one he commanded with Jacopo and Medje, the other he placed in charge of Coucou.
The demands of ordinary life were unknown to Spero. He had put his arm in the burning flame with the courage of a Mucius Scævola, and quailed before the prick of a needle. Suddenly the door-bell rang, and breathing more freely the vicomte left the little room. When he returned to his study he found Coucou awaiting him.
"Sergeant Coucou," said Monte-Cristo, with earnest mien, "a man should never speak of impossibilities. I have often accomplished things which others thought impossible." "Yes, if you, as our commander, would take the matter in hand, that would be quite a different thing," thought the Zouave, confidently. "Well then, I shall do my best." "Hurrah! is it not so, I'm allowed to call you commander?"
At any rate, so we think at the house; or else, why should he countermand the Daumont, why travel in a coucou? A peer of France might afford to hire a cabriolet to himself, one would think." "A cabriolet would cost him forty francs to go there and back; for let me tell you, if you don't know it, that road was only made for squirrels, up-hill and down, down-hill and up!" said Pierrotin.
"Nonsense," interrupted Spero; "I may sometimes look troubled, but certainly not stern, and I beg you not to speak differently from what you were taught speak to me as you do to my father." "Ah, it is easy to speak to the count," said Coucou, unthinkingly; "he has such a cheering smile "
"What bothers me most," interrupted Coucou, "is the fact that the vicomte took his pistols along." Fanfaro became pensive. "Have you any idea how the young girl was wounded?" he asked after a pause, turning to Madame Caraman. "No, but Monsieur Sabran knows." "The painter? I shall go to him directly." "We have been to his house already, but he has not been home since this morning."
"What is the meaning of this?" she asked. "I think that we have more serious things to think of than masquerading." "Come, do not speak before you know everything," replied the Zouave; and in a few words he told her the story of his disguise. "Where can Monsieur Sabran be?" asked Madame Caraman. "What!" exclaimed Coucou, "where is he then?" "I haven't seen him, nor Fanfaro, nor Bobichel since."
Though Frederic Marest was cousin-german to Georges Marest, the latter not having told his surname in Pierrotin's coucou, Oscar Husson did not connect the present Marest with the grandson of Czerni-Georges.
"Downstairs in the dining-room." "Are you going to breakfast alone?" "That depends. Perhaps one of my friends may drop in, though I haven't invited any one." "Please ring the bell in case you want to be served," said Coucou, as he left the room. Spero stood at the writing-desk for a time, and his dark eyes were humid.
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