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Goutran looked at him with some surprise. The intimacy between these young men had begun by Esperance wishing to buy a picture of Goutran's, which had obtained a great success at the Salon. The picture was of a gipsy girl playing a violin and dancing. Bertuccio went to the painter's studio, and offered an enormous sum for the picture, which was refused by Goutran.
A pained exclamation broke from Goutran's breast, and he hid his face in his hands. He felt as if a dagger had struck him in the heart. "Yes," continued Carmen, with a smile of contempt, "this old man, for reasons of his own, insisted on my bearing his name. Do not condemn me too greatly," she continued, "I was not sixteen when I fell into the trap that this man laid for me. Think of it!"
The lady entered the room, followed at some little distance by Esperance, who had conquered his timidity and come. His father had bidden him "live," and the young man felt that he was in a measure obeying his order when he drove to Goutran's studio, where he arrived just in time to assist the fair stranger from her carriage.
The evening that Esperance went to Goutran's, Fanfar, accompanied by the inseparable Bobichel, had seen the young man enter his friend's house, he had seen him place Jane in the carriage, and finally had watched him walk away with Goutran. Could there be anything more reassuring?
At this word Laisangy started, and thus confirmed the suspicions of Carmen, who was watching him. He took her hand, and she withdrew it quickly. He had obtained what he desired, and was now ready to depart. "What is he planning?" said Carmen to herself. "Is it really some financial operation, which, of course, I care nothing about, or is it ?" Goutran's name rose to her lips.
"No," he replied, "I will go for it myself." He went back to Goutran's apartment. As he passed through the vestibule he heard a sarcastic laugh. He was of course mistaken, for only Goutran, with Carmen, were coming down the stairs Monsieur de Laisangy, Comte Velleni, and his Secretary Fagiano. "You have behaved like a hero, Count!" cried Carmen, as soon as she saw him.
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