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Instantly I heard a stir; then there came the sound of flint and steel, then a light, and presently a hand at the window, and a voice asking who was there. I gave a quick reply; the light was put out, the window opened, and there was Voban staring at me. "This letter," said I, "to Mademoiselle Duvarney," and I slipped ten louis into his hand, also. This he quickly handed back.
Presently the Governor was seated, and he said, looking round, "Monsieur Doltaire he is not here?" Bigot shook his head, and answered, "No doubt he is detained at the citadel." "And the Seigneur Duvarney?" the Governor added. At that moment the Governor's secretary handed him a letter. The Governor opened it. "Listen," said he.
This was due largely, he thought, to the constant advocacy of the Chevalier de la Darante, whose nephew had married Mademoiselle Georgette Duvarney. This piece of news, in spite of the uncertainty of Alixe's fate, touched me, for the Chevalier had indeed kept his word to me.
Henderson, a volunteer in the Twenty-Second; and then, almost at my feet, stretched out as I had seen him lie in the Palace courtyard two years before, Juste Duvarney. But now he was beyond all friendship or reconciliation forever. The bells of some shattered church were calling to vespers, the sun was sinking behind the flaming autumn woods, as once more I entered the St.
And it is enjoined upon Mademoiselle Alixe Duvarney, on peril of her soul's salvation, to obey us in this matter, and neither by word or deed or thought have commerce more with this notorious and evil heretic and foe of our Church and of our country.
When Monsieur Doltaire entered the salon, and, dropping lazily into a chair beside Madame Duvarney and her daughter, drawled out, "England's Braddock fool and general has gone to heaven, Captain Moray, and your papers send you there also," I did not shift a jot, but looked over at him gravely for, God knows, I was startled and I said, "The General is dead?"
The Seigneur Duvarney, to whom I had not yet spoken, nor he to me, stood leaning against the wall, gazing at me seriously and kindly. Presently Ramesay, the Commandant, spoke, not unkindly: "It was ordered you should wear chains, but not that you should be maltreated. A surgeon shall be sent to you, and this chain shall be taken from your ankle. Meanwhile, your guards shall be changed."
Duvarney and I were thus alone for a moment, and he straightway dropped a hand upon my shoulder. "Let me advise you," he said, "be friendly with Doltaire. He has great influence at the Court and elsewhere. He can make your bed hard or soft at the citadel." I smiled at him, and replied, "I shall sleep no less sound because of Monsieur Doltaire." "You are bitter in your trouble," said he.
The Council do not care much; they follow the Governor and Bigot, and both being agreed, their verdict is unanimous. He paused, then added, 'And the Seigneur Duvarney and his daughter wish it because of a notable injury to one of their name. At that I cautiously replied, 'No, my father does not wish it, for my brother gave the offense, and Captain Moray saved his life, as you know.
Whom had I but her and Voban! and Voban was yet to be proved. The Seigneur Duvarney had paid all debts he may have owed me, and he now might, because of the injury to his son, leave me to my fate. On Gabord the soldier I could not count at all. There I was, as Doltaire had said, like a rat in a trap. But I would not let panic seize me.
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