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"I trust, sir," said he with the most servile courtesy, "that you will excuse the liberty I take, but I am so utterly crippled with rheumatism that I can hardly walk, Marquis." Daumon had read somewhere that the eldest son of a Duke was entitled to be styled Marquis, and it was the first time that Norbert had been thus addressed.
"But I should never dare to claim it; how could I venture to do so?" "You need not make the application personally; your solicitor would manage all that for you; but, of course, you must wait until you are of age." "But I cannot wait until then," said Norbert; "I must at once free myself from this tyranny." "Luckily there are ways." "Do you really think so, Daumon?"
Farewell." Before the Duke could recover his senses, Diana was far down the path on her way homewards; and then he burst into a wild storm of menaces, oaths, and insults. He fancied that he was alone, but he was mistaken; for the whole of that strange scene had a hidden witness, and that witness was Daumon.
He had made up his mind to let the young man have all his savings, amounting to some forty thousand francs, and not to press for payment until the young man come into his fortune. All this, however, hinged upon Norbert's silence and discretion, for, at the first inkling of the matter, the Duke would scatter all the edifice to the winds; but of this happening Daumon had no fear.
This was the last piece of advice that Daumon gave his client; and when he was again left alone, he perused with feelings of intense gratification, the two notes that Norbert had signed. They were entirely correct and binding, and drawn up in proper legal form.
As a commencement we will petition that we may not be ordered back to our father's custody, and it will further be set forth that our reason for this is that a father has assaulted a son with undue and unnecessary violence. We shall be sure to gain the day, and " "Enough," broke in Norbert; "will the decision give me the right to marry whom I please without my father's consent?" Daumon hesitated.
"What is the news to-day?" Daumon bowed profoundly. "Bad news, Count," answered he. "I hear that the Duke de Champdoce is seriously indisposed." "The Duke ill impossible!" "This girl has just given me the information. Tell us all about it, Francoise." "I heard to-day at the Chateau that the doctors had quite given him over." "But what is the matter with him?" "I did not hear."
"It was not worth my coming here if this was all that you had to say;" and, whistling to Bruno, the young man prepared to quit the room. "Ah, Marquis! you are far too hasty," said the Counsellor humbly. Norbert paused. "Speak then," answered he roughly. In a low, impressive voice, Daumon went on.
"Enough," cried Diana, stamping her foot angrily on the ground. "Enough, I say." "Well, mademoiselle, I can no longer remain here. I am far too nervous, and I wish to go to some foreign country." "Come, let me hear the real meaning of this long preface." Thus adjured, Daumon spoke.
His artful way of talking, and the long black coat which he wore, had given him the nickname of the "Counsellor" in the district. The reason why he disliked the Duke was because the latter had more than once shown himself hostile to him, and had taken him before the court of justice, from which Daumon only escaped by means of bribery of suborned witnesses.
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