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Night alone covered them with its black pall; night alone saw that Jean Debry all at once commenced stirring slightly, that he opened his eyes and raised his head in order to find out what was going on around him.
"Am I so disfigured that no one of you is able to recognize Jean Debry?" The footmen now recognized his voice, and the valet de chambre hastened to open the door of the count's study, and to shout, in a loud voice, "His excellency, the French ambassador Debry!"
Only one of the three French ambassadors, for the last few weeks, had been less supercilious than his colleagues; he had participated less than formerly in the affairs of the German congress, and while Roberjot and Jean Debry were raising their arrogant and haughty voices in every session of congress, Bonnier kept aloof.
He beheld the bloody and mutilated corpses of his two friends the dead bodies of Roberjot and Bonnier. Jean Debry closely compressed his lips in order to keep back the cry that forced itself from his breast; with the whole energy of his will he suppressed the tears that started from his eyes, and he turned away in order to return to Rastadt. The rain protected Jean Debry.
This hour has punished her sufficiently, and our profound contempt shall be the only penalty she will take away with her." "Yes, our profound contempt shall be the penalty she will take with her," exclaimed Roberjot and Jean Debry at the same time. "There is nothing more disgraceful under the sun than a woman who sells her charms," said Roberjot.
"Yes, let us beware of the serpent's venom!" exclaimed Jean Debry, with gloomy energy "let us beware, and most of all, let us be men who cannot be intimidated by the furious threats of a woman." But Jean Debry knew neither the energy nor the power of this woman whose threats he despised. He did not know that, her anger once aroused, she would not rest until she had taken her revenge.
All of them were looking with pale faces and expressions of unbounded horror at some objects lying in their midst. What was it that rendered this crowd, generally so noisy and turbulent, to-day so silent and grave? Jean Debry penetrated further into their midst, and he discovered now with a shudder what riveted the attention of the vast gathering on the road.
"Come in, gentlemen!" he shouted, and his two colleagues, Roberjot and Debry, immediately appeared on the threshold. Without greeting Victoria, merely eyeing her with cold, contemptuous glances, the two gentlemen entered and walked directly to the desk. Bonnier locked the door and put the key into his pocket. Victoria saw it, and a slight pallor overspread her rosy face for a moment.
Installed early in 1791, not a year elapsed before these magistrates became as ill at ease as had been those whom they displaced, and in March, 1792, Jean Debry formally demanded their recall, although their terms properly were to expire in 1796.
"Well, what are we to do?" asked Roberjot, when the officer had left them. "We will set out," said Jean Debry, impetuously. "Yes, we will set out," exclaimed his beautiful young wife, encircling him with her arms. "The air here, it seems to me, smells of blood and murder; and every minute's delay redoubles our danger."
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