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D'Avencourt looked puzzled; but he was a punctilious man, and knew how to steer clear of a delicate subject. He smiled. "A la bonne heure," he said "I wish you joy with all my heart! You are the best judge of your own happiness; as for me vive la liberte!" And with a gay parting salute he left me.
"Damn you!" he muttered through his clinched teeth then suddenly raising his voice to a positive shriek, he cried, "I will have your blood if I have to tear your heart for it!" and he made an effort to spring upon me. The Marquis D'Avencourt quietly caught his other arm and held it as in a vise. "Not so fast, not so fast, mon cher" he said, coolly. "We are not murderers, we!
"You must positively excuse me," he said. "My conscience will not permit me to take up such a remarkably wrong cause as yours, cara mio! I shall be pleased to act with D'Avencourt for the count, if he will permit me." The marquis received him with cordiality, and the two engaged in earnest conversation.
They were undeniably clever, cultivated men of the world, but the superstitious element was in their blood, and all, with the exception perhaps of Freccia and the ever-cool Marquis D'Avencourt, were evidently rendered uneasy by the fact now discovered. On Ferrari it had a curious effect he started violently and his face flushed.
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