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"How can you let things slide like that, Dick? It's like Ferrand." "Have you such a bad opinion of him, then?" asked Shelton. He felt on the verge of some, discovery. She buried her chin deeper in her hands. "I liked him at first," she said; "I thought that he was different. I thought he couldn't really be " "Really be what?" Antonia did not answer. "I don't know," she said at last.
"As I told you," replied Ferrand, "there 's nothing to be done at Folkestone, though I should have stayed there if I had had the money to defray certain expenses"; and again he seemed to reproach his patron with the omission of that cheque. "They say things will certainly be better at the end of the month.
"As long as Danae was free," remarks Ferrand in his sixteenth century treatise, De la Maladie d'Amour, "she was chaste."
He was still debating whether to write or go himself to the young foreigner, when there came a knock and Ferrand himself appeared. "I should be sorry," he said, breaking an awkward silence, "if you were to think me ungrateful, but I see no future for me here. It would be better for me to go. I should never be content to pass my life in teaching languages 'ce n'est guere dans mon caractre'."
Ferrand stood opposite to her, leaning against the window bar and watching her while she sewed. "Do you know, Sister," said he, "this journey to Lourdes, which I undertook to oblige a friend, will be one of the few delights of my life." She did not understand him, but innocently asked: "Why so?" "Because I have found you again, because I am here with you, assisting you in your admirable work.
Although Jacques Ferrand was never to obtain the object of his wishes, the Creole was very careful not to deprive him of all hope; but the vague and distant hopes which she rocked in the cradle of so many caprices were for him only increased tortures, and riveted more solidly still the burning chain he wore.
"Never mind; one ought always to think twice before ruining a poor young man who always conducted himself well until now." "M. Ferrand would reply to that, 'It was for the sake of example." "Example of what? It is of no use to those who are honest; and those who are not, know well enough that they are likely to be discovered if they steal."
I rapped, and, receiving no answer, I walked in." "Well, what did you see?" "M. Ferrand lying upon his arms, which were placed upon the table, and his bald head uncovered. He did not stir." "He was asleep, probably." "I thought so. I approached him, and said: 'There are some clients outside, who wish to see you. He did not move. 'M. Ferrand! No reply.
"M. Ferrand generous! he would skin an egg!" "And yet the forty sous for our breakfast?" "Beautiful proof! It is like a pimple on the end of a man's nose it is an accident." "Yes, but, on the other hand, the head clerk told me that three days ago he sold out an enormous amount of treasury bonds, and that " "Well! speak then." "It is a secret." "So much the more reason for telling it."
This had just been done when word was brought that the first red flag had been carried off, so M. Ferrand de Missol got out another, and, followed by a considerable escort, took the same road as his colleague, Abbe de Belmont.
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