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Updated: May 4, 2025
The three servants of the inn ran out, and the tilbury drove in without any one being able to see a single feature of the stranger's face. The sub-prefect followed the tilbury into the courtyard, and went to the door of the inn. "Madame Poupart," said Antonin, "will you ask Monsieur Monsieur " "I don't know his name," said Gothard's sister. "You do wrong!
If it had not been for Gothard's convulsive snifflings those present could have heard the flies fly. When Madame d'Hauteserre, pale and terrified, opened the door and entered the room, almost carried by Mademoiselle Goujet, whose red eyes had evidently been weeping, all faces turned to her at once. The two agents hoped as much as the household feared to see Laurence enter.
The little fellow managed to slip something into Gothard's hand without being detected, and the latter glided into the salon after him till he reached his mistress, to whom he stealthily conveyed both halves of the wedding-ring, a sure sign, she knew, that Michu had met the four gentlemen and put them in safety.
"Why, there's the countess's mare, Gothard's horse, and Monsieur d'Hauteserre's." "There is only one in the stable," said Peyrade. "Mademoiselle is out riding," said Durieu. "Does she often ride about at this time of night?" said the libertine Peyrade, addressing Monsieur d'Hauteserre. "Often," said the good man, simply. "Monsieur le maire can tell you that."
But Gothard's speech was evidently so true and yet so false, so perfectly innocent and so artful that the two Parisians again looked at each other as if to echo Peyrade's former words: "They are not ninnies."
Gothard's frequent disappearances, the long rides of his mistress, and her evident preoccupation, which, for the last few days, had appeared in her face, together with other little signs not to be hidden in the silence and tranquillity of such a life, had roused the fears of these submissive royalists.
He made no answer to the justice, for his mouth was full and his heart innocent. Gothard's appetite was destroyed by fear. "Look here," said the forester, going up to Michu and whispering in his ear: "What have you done with the senator? You had better make a clean breast of it, for if we are to believe these people it is a matter of life or death to you."
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