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Updated: May 12, 2025
And the necklace glittered away indifferently between us. At last the duchess, her eyes still fixed on the whitewashed wall opposite, said in a slow emphatic tone: "I wouldn't touch it, if it were the crown of France!" I plucked up my courage to answer her. For Marie Delhasse's sake I felt a sudden anger. "You are pharisaical," said I. "The poor girl has acted honorably.
Enough then for the telling of it; but enough in the passing of it there was not nor could be. Yet at last, because needs must when the devil or a son aye, or an elderly daughter of his drives, I found myself outside the door of Mme. Delhasse's room. With the turning of the lock Marie whispered a last word to me, and full of hope I turned to descend the stairs.
But I spared another to wishing that she had thought of telling me to what haven she was bound. A Very Clever Scheme. I must confess at once that I might easily have displayed more acumen, and that there would have been nothing wonderful in my discerning or guessing the truth about Marie Delhasse's movements.
At this latter prospect I told myself that I ought to feel very satisfied, and rather to my surprise found myself feeling not very dissatisfied; for most unquestionably the duchess had treated me villainously and had entirely failed to appreciate me. My face still went hot to think of the glance she had given Marie Delhasse's maladroit ambassador.
For an instant he glared at her; then he cried: "That old fiend has played a trick on me! She has got the necklace!" And I began to understand the smile that I had seen on Mme. Delhasse's face, and her marvelous good humor; and I began to have my opinion concerning her evening stroll to Pontorson. Bontet and Pierre had been matched against more than they thought.
Delhasse's temper had not been of the best nor calculated to endure patiently such a vexatious encounter as befell her when she ran against me on the landing outside her door. "For I told her," Marie repeated, "that I would sooner die!" For when I hesitated, God sent you to my door, that in love I might find salvation."
"He gave them me on on a condition." "A condition," said I, "no gentleman could mention, and no law enforce." She blushed scarlet, but sat silent. "Revenge is sweet," said I. "She ran away rather than meet you. You send her her diamonds!" A sudden gleam shot into Marie Delhasse's eyes. "Yes," she said, "yes." And stopped, thinking, with her hands clasped.
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