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"But you appear to have been well schooled in a most excellent philosophy." And he laughed outright. She reddened under his amusement. "It was thus my father taught me," said she, in quieter tones; "and he was the wisest man I ever knew, just as he was the noblest and the bravest." Garnache bowed his head. "God rest his soul!" said he with respectful fervour.
He would test for himself the truth of what Monsieur de Garnache had told him concerning his brother's intentions. Marius received his advances very coolly. He took his brother's hand, submitted to his brother's kiss; but neither kiss nor hand-pressure did he return. Florimond affected not to notice this.
The dust rose up to envelop and almost choke them, and more than once they slipped in the blood with which the floor was spattered, whilst presently Garnache barely recovered and saved himself from stumbling over the body of one of his victims against which his swiftly moving feet had hurtled.
So he opened his lips and let out a deep guffaw of mockery. "We shall have you turning monk," said he, "a candidate for canonization going barefoot, with flagellated back and shaven head. No more wine, no more dice, no more wenches, no more " "Peace!" snapped the other. "Say 'Pax," suggested Garnache, "'Pax tecum, or `vobiscum. It is thus you will be saying it later."
"Look you, Monsieur Gaubert," said Garnache quietly, "your opponent will be Monsieur Courthon, and since he is in his stockinged feet, there is no reason why you yourself should not remain so too. As for me, I retain my boots, and Monsieur Sanguinetti may have all the advantage that may give him. Since I am content, in Heaven's name let the fight go forward. I am in haste."
He leapt back beyond the table, and threw himself on guard, his lips still wreathed in their mysterious smile. "The time has come, messieurs," said he. "I should have preferred to know more of how you slew that Monsieur de Garnache; but since you deny me the information, I shall do my best without it. I'll try to conjure up his ghost, to keep you entertained, Monsieur le Capitaine."
"I venture to think, sir, that that is my affair," said Garnache stiffly. "But it is not," the other cried. "If you fight in your boots, we must all do the same, and for myself well, I have not come here to commit suicide."
Here Marius was consoled to find some men of the garrison of Condillac a half-score, or so all more or less armed, surrounding the horses of Garnache and his lackey. At sight of the odd group that now appeared those ruffians stood at gaze, surprised, and with suspicions aroused by Garnache's naked sword, ready for anything their master might demand of them.
Bid others bury this son of the house of Condillac; it matters no more by what hands or in what ground he be buried than if he were the horse he rode or the hound that followed him." "The Church is very harsh, Father," said Garnache sternly. "The Church is very just," the priest answered him, more sternly still, a holy wrath kindling his sombre eyes.
Garnache wondered idly, might this be due to the circumstance that that same stranger was supported now by one single companion, and was therefore less valorous than when he had been in the company of three.
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