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His first waking thought was to attend a meeting of the creditors at noon, and hear what they had to say. He found ten or twelve persons present, some of gentlemanly appearance, others hard-looking characters. Among them, and in singular contrast with their world-stamped faces, was the ingenuous countenance of Florimond Blumenthal.
Florimond say." "And why didn't she marry him when she owed her fortune to him?" La Cibot asked quickly. "It is something for a little haberdasher, kept by an old man, to be a barrister's wife " "Why? " asked the portress, bringing Mme. Cibot out into the passage. "Why? You are going to see him, are you not, madame? Very well, when you are in his office you will know why."
Her love of her own child and her ambitions for him, her keen desire to see him fill an exalted position in the world, caused her a thousand times a day to wish his half-brother dead. Yet Florimond had flourished and grown, and as he grew he manifested a character which, with all its imperfections, was more lovable than the nature of her own offspring.
A minute of the Signory dated November 6, 1508, informs us that the bronze David, weighing about 800 pounds, had been "packed in the name of God," and sent to Signa on its way to Leghorn. Florimond Robertet placed it in the courtyard of his château of Bury, near Blois.
If all else failed, we might be glad of it." "Glad of it? Not I, for one. Yet all else will fail unless you bestir yourself in the next three days. Condillac is as good as lost to you already, since Florimond is upon the threshold. La Vauvraye most certainly will be lost to you as well unless you make haste to snatch it in the little moment that is left you."
When they were alone together he and she in her anteroom in the Northern Tower, she turned to him before he had time to question her as he was intending. "A courier has arrived," said she. "I know; I saw him in the courtyard. Whence is he? Did you learn it?" "From Florimond." She was white with agitation. "From the Marquis de Condillac?" he cried, and he knew not whether to hope or fear.
After all, I think we shall have him." "He is our only danger now," the Marquise answered, "for Florimond is dead of the fever," she added, with a sneering smile which gave Tressan sensations as of cold water on his spine. "It were an irony of fate if that miserable lackey were to reach Paris now and spoil the triumph for which we have worked so hard."
You will forget me in the bustle of your career, monsieur; but I shall always hold your memory very dear and very gratefully. You are the only friend I have ever known since my father died excepting Florimond, though it is so long since I have seen him, and he never came to me in times of stress as you have done."
'Off! off! cried the Prioress, holding back her deer-hound by main strength. 'Off, Florimond! he sets thee a pattern of faithfulness! Be quiet and learn thy devoir! 'O sir, I cannot send him back! entreated Hal, also embracing and caressing the shaggy neck. 'Send him back! Nay, indeed. As saith the Reverend Mother, it were well if some earls and lords minded his example, said Sir Giles.
Florimond here spoke the general opinion of the Church of Rome; but it never suggested itself to the mind of any person engaged in these trials, that if it were indeed a devil, who raised up so many new witches to fill the places of those consumed, it was no other than one in their own employ the devil of persecution. But so it was.
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