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In fine, Count Andrea, not content now to rely on her dishonoured honour, but willing to trust to her strong religious feelings, had demanded of her an oath that she would hold no further communication of any sort, kind, or nature with Paul de Roustache. The oath was a terrible oath to be sworn on a relic which had belonged to the Cardinal and was most sacred in the eyes of the Fieramondi.
Your porch offered me a short rest and shelter from the rain while I smoked a cigar. I presume that I have the honour of addressing the owner of this fine house?" "You 're right, sir. I am the Count of Fieramondi," said the young man, "and this is my house. Do me the favour to enter it and refresh yourself." "Oh, but you entertain company, and look at me!"
"Yes, and you let me do something even when you were Countess of Fieramondi, too!" "That was not playing the part well." The Captain looked just a little doubtful, and Lucia laughed. "Anyhow," said he, "you 're not Countess of Fieramondi now." She looked up at him. "You 're a very devout young lady," he continued, "who goes all the way to Rome to consult the Bishop of Mesopotamia.
"With the Countess of Fieramondi? Ah, you soldiers! You were a little indiscreet there, my good Captain. But that's not my business." "Your remark is very just," agreed Dieppe. "I 'll give that candle just a quarter of an hour," he was thinking. "Except so far as I may be able to turn it to my purposes. Come, we know one another, Captain Dieppe."
"You betray the Count of Fieramondi, your friend; why not betray your employers also?" For a moment there was a look in the Captain's eye which seemed to indicate annoyance, but the next instant he smiled. "As if there were any parallel!" said he. "Matters of love are absolutely different, my good friend." Then he went on very carelessly, "The candle 's low. Why don't you light your lantern?"
It meant to him so complete a reversal of what he had so unhesitatingly believed, such an utter upsetting of all his notions. For if this were in truth the Countess of Fieramondi, why, who was the other lady? His want of quickness threatened at last to ruin the scheme which he had, although unconsciously, done so much to help; for the Count was growing puzzled.
"To live under the same roof, and yet " "My dear sir, during the negotiations which followed on the Countess's refusal to to well, to meet my wishes, I represented that to her with all the emphasis at my command. I am bound to add that she represented it no less urgently to me." "On the other hand, of course, the scandal " Dieppe began. "We Fieramondi do not much mind scandal.
Why, you only met me for the first time last night!" "Oh, but I can explain " "That you had previously fallen in love with the Countess of Fieramondi? For your own sake and ours too " "That's very true," admitted the Captain. "I must wait a little, I suppose." "You must wait to tell Andrea that you love me, but " "Precisely!" cried the Captain.
And in this suspicion the innkeeper proved, in the issue, to be absolutely right, about the value of the luggage there is, however, more room for doubt. The second person who suffered a surprise was no less a man than the Count of Fieramondi himself. But how this came about needs a little more explanation.
"How touching that is!" thought the Captain. "She has a hundred causes for anxiety, but her first question is, 'You're safe?" This was she whom he renounced, and this was she whom the Count of Fieramondi deceived. What were her trifling indiscretions beside her husband's infamy the infamy betrayed and proved by the picture and inscription in the locket?
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