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Updated: June 14, 2025
There came just then a tap at the door. The articles were whipped back into their box and covered. The woman of the shop below walked in. All recovered self-possession. She bolted the door herself. Gougeon's mate, who thus appeared among them, was a small woman of about forty, with the sharp grey eyes of a wild animal. The coat and vessels were displayed to her by her husband.
Madame lifted the dress-coat, and inspected it with the same feminine closeness as the vest. "It is a good package," remarked she. "You have not seen all," vivaciously replied the Admiral, and diving his hand into the box he drew forth and opened the black kerchief of the cave of Fontainebleau. Gougeon's hand snatched the watch of the Prince de Poix.
The Council of the Galley-on-Land were gathered again in Gougeon's shop at two in the morning. All Paris was sleeping, and even the orgies of the Beggars' Ball had sunk to silence. There was animation among the Council, for in a corner, not at first visible, lay a subject of debate a prisoner tightly bound with a rope. Each man held some piece of sharp iron, Wife Gougeon her pistol.
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