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I will watch!" Signor Fagiano was standing, when Monsieur de Laisangy entered the room. He was a man of fifty, but extremely fine looking, with a little of the air of the Duc de Morny in his best days. He had, however, a scar across one cheek that disfigured him. No one would have recognized him as the convict Benedetto. Laisangy entered with a pale face of disdain.
"My dear child," began Laisangy, with some pomposity, "you have, doubtless, ere this discovered that matters of finance are composed of a thousand details more important than those of diplomacy." "I have certainly learned that swindling is a troublesome business," she said through her teeth, and with intense disdain. Laisangy pretended not to hear this.
At ten o'clock he was already walking up and down a street which commanded a view of the Hôtel Laisangy, but he felt none of the emotion natural to a lover going to a rendezvous. He had a feeling of strange oppression. Finally the clock struck eleven. The side door was on the Rue Saint Honoré. Goutran was about to ring the bell, when the door was opened and a hand was laid on his.
This Signor Fagiano had called to see Monsieur de Laisangy. "I heard no more of him, saw no more of him, until yesterday, when, as I entered the hôtel, I saw Fagiano coming in. I at once ran into Laisangy's private office, and reached it first, where I hid in a closet, ready to listen to every word. Do not reprove me.
And through these bars Esperance beheld Jane, but what he saw was so terrible that he recoiled and uttered a cry of terror, which was drowned in shrieks of laughter, wild songs and the clatter of glasses. Goutran had entire faith in Carmen, and he was now anxious to communicate with her. He called the former Zouave. "Coucon," he said, "do you know where Monsieur Laisangy lives?"
I tell you, that even when my lips met hers, I felt more sharply than ever the presentiment of which I spoke. I know that after what has taken place I ought to apply to her father for her hand. Why do I hesitate? I cannot tell." "Does Monsieur de Laisangy inspire you with absolute confidence?" asked Esperance, after a long pause.
I have just taken his education in hand." Carmen seemed trying to recall something. "The Count of Monte-Cristo is the person who met with such a series of incredible adventures, and is named Edmond Dantès?" she asked. "Yes, you are right." "And tell me, if you can excuse the question if Monsieur de Laisangy had ever any relations with him?" "Ah! that I cannot say.
"It seems to me that I was never so hungry in my life before!" said Laisangy. "Ah!" answered Carmen, "and yet there were times in your life when you were starving!" Laisangy was eating a bit of cheese. He stopped with his fork in the air. "We will not talk of that!" he replied. "And why not? Everybody is not born with a million in his cradle. I, too, have been near starvation!" "Carmen!"
Laisangy, learning of his arrival in Paris, had hastened to send him an invitation, but had hardly hoped to see him. He was, therefore, more than usually civil. Ben-Omar replied to his courtesies only by carrying his hand to his heart and then to his forehead, in the recognized Mussulman manner.
"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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