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However, as soon as Mademoiselle de Larsagny was seen to enter the room leaning on her father's arm, the riddle was solved. The classical head of the young girl graced the last salon, and as Gontram had painted the picture, no one wondered any longer at seeing the handsome Carmen and her father in the studio.
Gontram in the meantime had gone to meet the young lady who had just entered. She was a wonderfully handsome girl, and taking the painter's arm she slowly walked through the decorated rooms. Who Jane Zild was no one knew. Two months previously she had made her appearance in Paris society, and since then it was considered good form to patronize Jane Zild.
When the painter saw Spero's disturbed features on this particular day, and heard that the count had departed, he had an idea that it would do him good. "Where did your father go to?" he asked. "I do not know," replied Spero, uneasily. "What? Your father did not inform you?" asked Gontram. "No," replied Spero; "he departed this evening and left a letter for me behind him."
The young girl now leaned over the railing, and, breathing the balsamic air, she sighed: "Ah, how beautiful and peaceful it is here." Gontram had his arm about the young girl's slim waist, and carried away by his feelings he pressed a kiss upon Carmen's coral-red lips.
A rock very lofty furnished him above with a shelter that sufficed; out of the flanks of the rock issued a spring and watered the little valley that was on the other side surrounded by the Vezere." I think that it was in the Peuch S. Sour that the hermit settled, though afterwards through the favour of King Gontram he moved to lands granted him at Terrasson. And now for a story.
What did she know of his connections? Why should he have to go to the back door? How came it that Carmen asked him to meet her in this peculiar manner? Punctually at seven o'clock the painter was at the garden gate, and with a trembling hand Gontram pulled the bell-rope and was immediately let in by a maid. "The lady is waiting," she said.
The vicomte's disturbed features and the tone of his voice caused Gontram to become anxious, and leading Carmen into the music-room, he stammered an excuse, and then returned to Spero. "What has happened to you?" he asked, as he saw the young man was still excited. "I am afraid I am a very inattentive host." "Oh, that is not it," said Spero, hesitating; "but " "Well, speak.
He was, however, not prepared for the surprise which awaited him in Gontram Sabran's parlor. He recognized in Count Vellini's secretary the demon Benedetto, and his heart ceased beating when he saw the wretch. He hoped Benedetto would not recognize him, but he was destined to be deceived, as we have seen.
Not a sound issued from his troubled breast; but with a cold shiver Fanfaro and Gontram noticed that the count's black hair was slowly becoming snow-white, and with profound pity the friends gazed upon the grief-stricken man, who had become old in an hour. Monte-Cristo now bent over his son and clasped the dear corpse in his powerful arms. He went slowly and noiselessly to the door.
"Mademoiselle de Larsagny," said Gontram, laughing now, "I hope that you and the other ladies here will succeed in converting the hermit." Carmen was dissatisfied with the vicomte's indifference, and, bowing coldly, she went away, drawing the painter with her. "Well, how does my eccentric please you?" asked Gontram. "H'm, he is very handsome; whether he is intellectual, I cannot tell.
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