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I like people who do know all about me, and who like me because I am I. That's one reason why I like Florimond. He admired my mother, and loved my father; and he thinks just as well of me as if I had never been sold for a slave." "Do you always call him Florimond?" inquired Mrs. Delano. "I call him Mr. Blumenthal before folks, and he calls me Miss Delano.
I'll add as many more as need be to the death roll that we have already, before you set foot in Condillac." "Ah!" said Florimond, as one upon whose mind a light breaks suddenly. "So, that is the business on which you come to me. I doubted your brotherliness, I must confess, my dear Marius. But tell me, brother mine, what of our father's wishes in this matter? Have you no respect for those?"
'Tis ever the worthless that turn up. 'I would Florimond would show himself as true, said the Prioress. 'Don't show thy teeth, sir! I can honour Watch, yet love thee. ''Tis jealousy as upsets faith, said the merchant. 'The hound is a knightly beast with his proud head, but he brooks not to see a Woodville creep in. 'Nay, or a Beaufort! suggested Sir Giles.
But now, with Florimond to be murdered on the morrow at La Rochette, himself likely to be murdered within the hour at Condillac, Valerie was at their mercy utterly. Wildly and vainly did he strive even then to cover up the foolish thing that he had done.
But do not make dishonorable proposals to him, as you did just now to me; he has a head on his shoulders, you will understand each other. And as for acknowledging his services, I will be your intermediary " Mme. Cibot looked askance at the doctor. "Is that the lawyer who helped Mme. Florimond the haberdasher in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple out of a fix in that matter of her friend's legacy?"
Fortunio turned the key in the lock. Florimond gave his brother a long searching look, then with a sigh he picked up his sword where it lay ready to his hand and thoughtfully unsheathed it. Holding the hilt in one hand and the blade in the other he stood, bending the weapon like a whip, whilst again he searchingly regarded his brother. "Hear me a moment," said he.
"I have dreaded this," she said. "I have seen for days that it was coming. But, O Florimond, it is hard." She hid her face in his bosom, and he felt her heart beat violently, while he talked concerning the dangers and duties of the time. Mrs. Delano bowed her head over the soldier's sock she was knitting, and tears dropped on it while she listened to them.
And so bitterly was it waged that it was by the old Marquis's suggestion that at last Florimond had gone upon his travels to see the world and carry arms in foreign service. Her hopes that he would take his death, as was a common thing when warring, rose high so high as to become almost assurance, a thing to be reckoned with.
Mile after mile her image kept him company, and once, when he had left Voreppe behind him, the greater portion of his journey done, some devil whispered in his ear that he was weary; that he would be over-weary on the morrow for any ride to La Rochette. He had done all that mortal man could do; let him rest to-morrow whilst Marius and Fortunio accomplished by Florimond what the fever had begun.
She had said that she did not exactly love this Florimond, that her loyalty to him was no more than her loyalty to her father's wishes. Nevertheless, he thought, what manner of hurt must not her pride receive when she learned that Florimond had brought him home a wife?
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