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In bidding adieu, also, to Madame Bonaventure, which we do with regret, we have merely to state that she did not reign much longer over the destinies of the Three Cranes, but resigned in favour of Cyprien, who, as Monsieur Latour, was long and favourably known as the jovial and liberal host of that renowned tavern.
The old servant started forward as if to fell the Marquis to the earth, but suddenly he remembered his old master, the man whom he had loved so tenderly, and he could not harm his son. He half turned away. "Tell me the whole," he faltered, "I must know the whole." "Yes," stammered the Marquis. "Cyprien, who is my slave, poisoned him. I determined to have the fortune without longer delay.
The Commissioner ran up-stairs, followed by his men. He reached the upper floor. An oath was heard. "The birds have flown!" he shouted. "They went by the roof!" some one called from below. This some one was Cyprien, who had been on guard in the street, and had seen forms against the sky. "To the roof, then! And remember your orders, take them alive or dead!"
While Gudel and Fanfar were making arrangements for the representation of the evening, while Fongereues and Cyprien exchanged their honest confidences, Robeccal went forth to meet La Roulante. It was this amiable giantess whom Gudel had been foolish enough to marry, although what charms he had discovered in this mountain of flesh it would be difficult to say.
The Garonne!" Suddenly, on the wide road before us, appeared two men and three women, one of them holding a child in her arms. It was they who were crying out, distracted, running with long strides. They turned at times, looking behind with terrified faces, as if a band of wolves was pursuing them. "What's the matter with them?" demanded Cyprien. "Do you see anything, grandfather?"
"This individual," said Gudel, "is Cyprien, the man who does all the dirty work of his excellency the Marquis de Fongereues, going so far as to do a little poisoning on occasion." "Undo my chain!" cried Cyprien. "Not if I know it! But if you answer my questions, you shall have something to eat." "I am hungry!" murmured the rascal.
Cyprien the current became swifter and the turmoil of the rapids so great that I prepared my mind here to being swamped by the waves. The question whether I would abandon or try to rescue my knapsack after the wreck was distressing. The risk being over, it was with a sigh of relief that I beached the boat, now half full of water, at the nearest spot to the small town.
He may exact any recompense he pleases for saving the throne and the altar!" The Marquis rose hastily. His eyes flashed. "And you say that this formidable secret is yours Cyprien?" "I hold the threads of the plot in my hand!" "And yet, you are ready to abandon the benefits which would assuredly be yours should you decide to make the revelation?" "I am, first of all, your servant, sir!"
'Sir, he said to me, 'a Fongereues never begs! and the next day I received four thousand louis. Confound the nonsense!" Cyprien could not refrain from a smile. Four thousand louis did not seem to him a trifle, nor nonsense. "But His Majesty is interested in your son." "My son! These Puritans have much to say about my son. He gambles and he does other shocking things.
She looked like a saint, with her blond hair falling on her neck and her hands folded on her apron. I had built another story on the house when Aimee had married Cyprien; and I said laughingly that I would have to build another after the wedding of Veronique and Gaspard. We never cared to leave each other. We would sooner have built a city behind the farm, in our enclosure.
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