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In another room, the Bavarian Minister Cetto was conferring with the spy Mehee de la Touche; but observed at a distance by Fouche's secretary, Desmarets, the son of a tailor at Fontainebleau, and for years a known spy. When I was just going to retire, the handsome Madame Gillot, and her sister, Madame de Soubray, joined me.
M. Real had been at the Conciergerie, where he had seen Georges Cadoudal, and on his entrance observed to M. Desmarets and the others, sufficiently loud to be distinctly heard by M. Carbonnet and myself, "I have had an interview with Georges who is an extraordinary man.
Monsieur Desmarets looked about him in search of his antagonist. "Yes! that is really he," said the vidame, motioning to a man who was sitting in an arm-chair beside the fire. "Who is it? Jules?" said the dying man in a broken voice. Auguste had lost the only faculty that makes us live memory. Jules Desmarets recoiled with horror at this sight.
He was spoken of to M. le Duc d'Orleans as a man deep in banking and commercial matters, in the movements of the precious metals, in monies and finance: the Regent, from this description, was desirous to see him. He conversed with Law some time, and was so pleased with him, that he spoke of him to Desmarets as a man from whom information was to be drawn.
The young girl was in one of those unfortunate positions which human selfishness entails upon children. She had no civil status; her name of "Clemence" and her age were recorded only by a notary public. As for her fortune, that was small indeed. Jules Desmarets was a happy man on hearing these particulars.
Desmarets says in his despatches that he was on board of her several times whether he saw Raleigh more than once does not appear and that Raleigh complained to him of having been unjustly imprisoned, stripped of his estate, and so forth; and that he was on that account resolved to abandon his country, and, if the expedition succeeded, offer himself and the fruit of his labour to the King of France.
Bernard was the dupe of this scheme; he returned from his walk with the King enchanted to such an extent that he said he would prefer ruining himself rather than leave in embarrassment a Prince who had just treated him so graciously, and whose eulogiums he uttered with enthusiasm! Desmarets profited by this trick immediately, and drew much more from it than he had proposed to himself..
Come, dry your tears, my silly child, and think " At this instant a terrible cry rang from the room in which Jules Desmarets was stationed. The clamor was heard by Madame Jules and Ferragus through the opening of the wall, and struck them with terror. "Go and see what it means, Clemence," said her father.
On this occasion, inquisitive minds were particularly surprised to see the six lateral chapels at Saint-Roch also hung in black. Two men in mourning were listening to a mortuary mass said in each chapel. In the chancel no other persons but Monsieur Desmarets, the notary, and Jacquet were present; the servants of the household were outside the screen.
Monsieur Desmarets was, five years before his marriage, in a broker's office, with no other means than the meagre salary of a clerk.
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