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I saw myself enmeshed and fettered beyond hope of escape, and by an effort only controlled the despair I felt. 'To-morrow? I muttered hoarsely. 'At what time? He shook his head with a cunning smile. 'A thousand thanks, but I will settle that myself! he answered. 'Au revoir! and uttering a word of leave-taking to M. Francois d'Agen, he blessed the two servants, and went out into the night.
The construction of the crown was entrusted to MM. Fannieres of Paris, the best workers of gold in France. They put their best art and skill into the crown. It consisted of two branches of laurel in dead gold, large and knotted behind, like the crowns of the Caesars and the poets, with a ruby, artistically arranged, containing the simple device: La Ville d'Agen, a Jasmin!
We watered the horses at a neighbouring brook, and assigning two hours to rest and refreshment a great part of which M. d'Agen and I spent walking up and down in moody silence, each immersed in his own thoughts we presently took the road again with renewed spirits. But a panic is not easily shaken off, nor is any fear so difficult to combat and defeat as the fear of the invisible.
And with that I told M. d'Agen of the duel I fought at the inn. 'Good! he said, his eyes sparkling. 'I wish I had been there to see. At any rate we will try him. Crillon fears no one, not even the king. So it was settled. For that night I was to keep close in my friend's lodging, showing not even my nose at the window.
Mme. la Duchesse douairière d'Agen thereupon closed the gilt-edged, much-bethumbed Missal which she was reading since this was Sunday and she had been unable to attend Mass owing to that severe twinge of rheumatism in her right knee and placed it upon the table close to her elbow; then with delicate, bemittened hand she smoothed out one unruly crease in her puce silk gown and finally looked up through her round, bone-rimmed spectacles at the sober-visaged, majestic personage who stood at attention in the doorway.
"Exciting, par Dieu! Of course it will be exciting. They have no idea that I guessed their little machinations. Mme. la Duchesse d'Agen travelling to Paris forsooth! Aye! but with five and twenty millions sewn somewhere inside her petticoats. Well! the Emperor happens to want his own five and twenty millions, if you please. So Mme. la Duchesse or M. le Comte will have to disgorge.
Mirèio. Pouèmo Prouvençau de FREDERI MISTRAL. Avec la Traduction littérale en regard. Avignon: J. Roumanille. 1859. 8vo. 4. Las Papillôtos de JACQUES JASMIN, de l'Académie d'Agen, Maître ès Jeux-Floraux, Grand Prix de l'Académie Française. Édition populaire, avec le Français en regard, et ornée d'un Portrait. De 1822
'Ha! he said, his thin lip curling in conceit at his astuteness, 'I understand you think to kill me to-night? Let me tell you, this house is watched. If you leave here to meet me with any companion unless it be M. d'Agen, whom I can trust, I shall be warned, and be gone before you reach the rendezvous. And gone, mind you, he added, with a grim smile, 'to sign your death-warrant.
This required very little capital; and he had already secured many acquaintances who offered to patronize him. M. Boyer d'Agen, who has recently published the works of Jasmin, with a short preface and a bibliography, says that he first began business as a hairdresser in the Cour Saint-Antoine, now the Cour Voltaire.
I felt some surprise on hearing this, since d'Agen was still dressed and armed for the road, and was without all those prettinesses which commonly marked his attire.
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