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The examining-magistrate will be here presently; and the fact that the dagger and the pocket-book are in your possession will lead to your immediate arrest. This must not happen. Please allow me." His insinuating voice diminished Therese d'Ormeval's resistance. She released her fingers, one by one.
At the first words of his answer, which no doubt conveyed the news of d'Ormeval's death, she uttered a cry and tried to force her way through the crowd. The brother, learning in his turn what had happened, made great play with his elbows and shouted to the coast-guards: "I'm a friend of d'Ormeval's!... Here's my card!
Her rage had incensed her so vehemently that she was unable to continue and stood with her hand outstretched and her chin twitching with nervous tremors. Renine gently took hold of Madame d'Ormeval's bag. She clung to it, but he insisted and said: "Please allow me, madame. Your friend Germaine is right.
"When I think," said Hortense, "that you have the dagger and M. d'Ormeval's pocket-book on you!" "And it strikes you as awfully dangerous, I suppose?" he said, laughing. "It strikes me as awfully comic." "Aren't you afraid?" "Of what?" "That they may suspect something?" "Lord, they won't suspect a thing!
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