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"I will show you the way to Lamarque's," she said. "Madame la Vicomtesse!" I cried. Had she no curiosity? Was she going to let pass what Auguste had hinted? Lifting up her skirts, she swung round and faced me. In her eyes was a calmness more baffling than the light I had seen there but a moment since. How to begin I knew not, and yet I was launched.
Such were his calmness and apparent faith in his own words, that they did much to allay Miss Lamarque's fears. My own were little soothed I never doubted from the beginning what the end would be. Mr. Lamarque approached us while the conference with the captain was going on, and, under the seal of secrecy, the condition of affairs was communicated to that gentleman.
He had not the astuteness to be a rogue; oddly he had the sense to know that he could fool us no longer. "Temple is at Lamarque's," he answered sullenly. I glanced questioningly at the Vicomtesse. "Lamarque is an old pensioner of Monsieur de St. Gre's," said she; "he has a house and an arpent of land not far below here." "Exactly," said Auguste, "and if Mr.
He took his bundle, and started off down the garden path with a grand air. I looked at the Vicomtesse inquiringly, and there was laughter in her eyes. "I must show you the way to Lamarque's." And then she whispered, "You have done well, Mr. Ritchie." I did not return her look, but waited until she took the path ahead of me.
It was at the moment of the insurrection in June 1832. We were at St. Cloud. It was well known that the agitators of every description intended to make a demonstration on the occasion of General Lamarque's funeral, but the demonstration was not expected to be of any importance.
"I will show you the way to Lamarque's," she said. "Madame la Vicomtesse!" I cried. Had she no curiosity? Was she going to let pass what Auguste had hinted? Lifting up her skirts, she swung round and faced me. In her eyes was a calmness more baffling than the light I had seen there but a moment since. How to begin I knew not, and yet I was launched.
With Miss Lamarque's hand locked in mine, I should have vied with her, I felt, in cheerful courage; and the knightly calmness of Dunmore might have sustained my drooping, fainting soul. These were my peers, and, with them, I should have been better content to be tried.
For the part taken by 'La Tribune, then conducted by Marrast, in this revolt, its press was seized and sealed. The same was the fate of 'La Quotidienne, and the same would have been the fate of 'Le National, but for its barricades. Well do I remember the meeting of our friends in this very apartment on the night after General Lamarque's funeral.
"I will tell you, Antoinette," began the Vicomtesse; "it was as you said. Mr. Ritchie and I found him at Lamarque's. He had not taken your money; he did not even know that Auguste had gone to see you. He did not even know," she said, bending over the girl, "that he was on your father's plantation. When we told him that, he would have left it at once." "Yes," she said.
She thrust the miniature in her gown, turned, and walked in silence awhile. Then she said: "So Auguste sold it again?" "Yes," I said. "He seems to have found a ready market only in you," said the Vicomtesse, without turning her head. "Here we are at Lamarque's."
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