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To-day this would be murder, murder as treacherous as that which La Tour d'Azyr had done upon Philippe de Vilmorin; for to-day the old positions were reversed, and it was Andre-Louis who might go to such an assignation without a doubt of the issue. It was a moral obstacle of which he made short work. But there remained the legal obstacle he had expounded to Danton.
See, they would like a word with you; they do not believe me when I tell them that you are here." Now, whatever he may have been, and whatever the views held on the subject by Andre-Louis, M. de La Tour d'Azyr was certainly not a coward. To say that he was hiding in Nantes was not true. He came and went there openly and unabashed.
As, with Le Chapelier, he was walking slowly and in silent dejection towards the entrance of the Bois, where they had left their carriage, they were passed by the caleche conveying La Tour d'Azyr and his second which had originally driven almost right up to the spot of the encounter. The Marquis' wounded arm was carried in a sling improvised from his companion's sword-belt.
It should be worth at least a couple of hundred louis, and that is a formidable sum even to so wealthy a nobleman as M. de La Tour d'Azyr. Would it be impertinent in one who has had some notion of becoming your husband, to ask you, mademoiselle, what you have given him in return?" M. Binet uttered a gross laugh, a queer mixture of cynicism and contempt.
You are to be sold thus, lovelessly, into bondage to a man you do not know. I had dreamed of better things for you, Aline." "Better than to be Marquise de La Tour d'Azyr?" He made a gesture of exasperation. "Are men and women nothing more than names? Do the souls of them count for nothing?
What was the use of this great skill in fence that he had come to acquire, unless he could turn it to account to avenge Vilmorin, and to make Aline safe from the lure of her own ambition? It would be an easy thing to seek out La Tour d'Azyr, put a mortal affront upon him, and thus bring him to the point.
Twice in the last month, had M. de La Tour d'Azyr gone to visit the Lord of Gavrillac at Meudon, and the sight of Aline, so sweet and fresh, so bright and of so lively a mind, had caused those embers smouldering under the ashes of the past, embers which until now he had believed utterly extinct, to kindle into flame once more. He desired her as we desire Heaven.
"In which, as usual, you are wrong. He will certainly do so if I ask him." "If you ask him?" Sheer horror rang in his voice. "Why, yes. You see, I have not yet said that I will be Marquise de La Tour d'Azyr. I am still considering. It is a position that has its advantages. One of them is that it ensures a suitor's complete obedience." "So, so. I see the crooked logic of your mind.
Ascertain for me that all is well, and let me know." "I will, at once." At parting, when Andre-Louis was on the point of stepping into his cabriolet to return to Paris, he sought information on another matter. "Do you happen to know if M. de La Tour d'Azyr has married?" he asked. "I don't; which really means that he hasn't. One would have heard of it in the case of that exalted Privileged."
He made up his mind quickly. He was not the man to be actuated by false heroics about dying, and he had no fancy whatever for the gallows of M. de Lesdiguieres' providing. The immediate task that he had set himself might be accomplished. He had made heard and ringingly the voice that M. de La Tour d'Azyr imagined he had silenced. But he was very far from having done with life.
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