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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Probably." "His being in trade buying gloves at Grenoble was all a plant then?" "I am afraid so," said St. Genis, who much against his will now was sinking ever deeper and deeper in the quagmire of lying and cowardice into which he had allowed himself to drift. "And he was nothing better than a spy!" No one, not even Crystal herself, could have defined with what feelings she said this.
"By 'personal feeling' I suppose that you mean St. Genis." "Well, yes .
Only Clyffurde, who stood somewhat apart from the others, knew by some unexplainable intuition what it was that had brought Maurice de St. Genis to this house in this excited state and at this hour. He felt excited too, and mightily thankful that the catastrophe would be brought about by others not by himself.
An hour later Maurice de St. Genis was in Brussels. Though his head still ached his mind was clear, and thoughts of Crystal of happiness with her now at last within sight had chased every other thought away.
Then he said very quietly: "M. Marmont, this is neither the place nor the opportunity which I should have chosen for confronting you with all the lies which you have told in the past ten months ever since you entered my house as an honoured guest. But M. de St. Genis has left me no option. Burning with indignation at your treachery he came hot-foot to unmask you, before my daughter's fair hand had affixed her own honourable name beneath that of a cheat and a traitor. .
Clyffurde never looked up while he did so: he continued to form awkward, illegible characters upon the paper before him, as if his very life depended on being able to write with his left hand. The next moment St. Genis had walked rapidly out of the room.
Genis wore a Brunswicker in black coat and silver galoons who stared at him, persistently and strangely, as he rode by. The face though much altered by three days' growth of beard, and by the set of the shako worn right down to the brows, was nevertheless a familiar one.
If this explanation of Clyffurde's strangely magnanimous conduct was the true one, then indeed St. Genis felt that he would have everything to fear from him. For indeed was it so very unlikely that the Englishman was throughout acting in collusion with Victor de Marmont, who was known to be his friend?
The bridge of La Guillotière was stoutly barricaded, but as St. Genis waited out in the open road while his name was being taken to the officer in command he saw crowds of people standing or walking up and down on the opposite bank of the river. They were waiting for the Emperor, the news of whose approach was filling the townspeople with glee. Heartsick and wretched, St.
"All of it and more. And look at the muddle you have made of things. Crystal has never got over that miserably aborted engagement of hers to de Marmont, and is no happier now with Maurice de St. Genis than she would have been with .
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