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The colour receded from his inflamed face; dread looked out of his pale eyes, to inform M. de La Tour d'Azyr, more clearly than any words, that M. de Kercadiou's hot speech had been the expression of unreflecting anger, that his prayer that retribution might soon overtake his godson had been unconsciously insincere.
"Why, the cause of the widow and orphans of this unfortunate Mabey." The Marquis looked from Vilmorin to the Chevalier, and again the Chevalier laughed, slapping his leg this time. "I think," said M. de La Tour d'Azyr, slowly, "that we are at cross-purposes.
"And it is La Tour d'Azyr you desire me to kill?" asked Andre-Louis very slowly, after the manner of one whose thoughts are meanwhile pondering the subject. "That's it," said Danton. "And not a job for a prentice hand, I can assure you." "Ah, but this alters things," said Andre-Louis, thinking aloud. "It offers a great temptation." "Why, then...?" The Colossus took a step towards him again.
Madame my aunt is receiving several guests to-day. M. de La Tour d'Azyr is to be one of them." Andre-Louis frowned and sighed. "Did you ever hear, Aline, how poor Philippe de Vilmorin came by his end?" "Yes; I was told, first by my uncle; then by M. de La Tour d'Azyr, himself." "Did not that help you to decide this marriage question?" "How could it? You forget that I am but a woman.
"I don't think that I shall ever take that resolve." "But you are still not sure in spite of everything." "Can one ever be sure of anything in this world?" "Yes. One can be sure of being foolish." Either she did not hear or did not heed him. "You do not of your own knowledge know that it was not as M. de La Tour d'Azyr asserts that he went to the Feydau that night?" "I don't," he admitted.
But to his amazement and chagrin, La Tour d'Azyr parried the stroke; infinitely more to his chagrin La Tour d'Azyr parried it just too late. Had he completely parried it, all would yet have been well.
Beyond the table, as if turned to stone by this culminating horror of revelation, stood Aline. M. de La Tour d'Azyr was the first to stir. Into his bewildered mind came the memory of something that Mme. de Plougastel had said of a letter that was on the table. He came forward, unhindered. The announcement made, Mme. de Plougastel no longer feared the sequel, and so she let him go.
The tone of it brought him up short. He turned again, Le Chapelier with him. "I said M. de La Tour d'Azyr." "What has he to do with the proposal you were making me?" "He? Why, he is the phlebotomist in chief." And Le Chapelier added. "It is he who killed Lagron." "Not a friend of yours, is he?" wondered Danton.
But, as a lawyer I also realize that if that case were prosecuted, it could only end in the unjust punishment of a wretched gamekeeper, who did no more than carry out his orders, but who none the less would now be made a scapegoat, if scapegoat were necessary. I am not concerned to hang Benet on the gallows earned by M. de La Tour d'Azyr." M. de Lesdiguieres smote the table violently.
I am not over-expectant as you appear to think; yet surely I have the right to expect that whilst M. de La Tour d'Azyr is wooing me, he shall not be wooing at the same time a drab of the theatre. I feel that in this there is a subtle association of myself with that unspeakable creature which soils and insults me.
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