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Updated: May 19, 2025
Yes, I know him." "Fagiano is not his real name." "Do you know it?" "Not yet, but I hope to very soon. Signor Fagiano and Monsieur Larsagny have met before.
The banker grasped the bell-rope, but let his hand fall again, and Fagiano, who noticed this, mockingly observed: "Why do you hesitate? Would you prefer to finish our interview without witnesses?" "Impudent puppy!" hissed Larsagny. "Do not get excited! Let us come to the point." "I have been waiting for that a long time," growled Larsagny; "tell me, first of all, who are you?"
However, as soon as Mademoiselle de Larsagny was seen to enter the room leaning on her father's arm, the riddle was solved. The classical head of the young girl graced the last salon, and as Gontram had painted the picture, no one wondered any longer at seeing the handsome Carmen and her father in the studio.
A quarter of an hour later a Bedouin clad all in white, whose brown complexion and coal-black eyes betrayed his Oriental origin, left the store of an elegant place in the Rue de Pelletier and, stepping into the coach which stood at the door, he cried to the coachman: "Rue de Rivoli, Palais Larsagny!"
"No, thank you it is the heat," stammered Larsagny. "Will you permit me to go on the terrace? I will recover in the fresh air." Without deigning to notice Carmen, the banker turned toward the glass door which led to the terrace and disappeared. The young girl bit her lips, and the next minute she was the centre of a gay crowd of admirers.
The banker ran his hands through his hair in despair. "Carmen, be reasonable," he implored, as he tried to take her hand. "Don't touch me," said Carmen. Larsagny bit his lips. "What have I done to you?" he groaned. "Think of the shame if the ladies appear and find out that my daughter has retired to her room." Carmen became pensive.
In the evening I stood on the terrace and heard these words: "'Monsieur de Larsagny, take care you do not learn my name too soon." "Ah, you are spying on me," cried Larsagny angrily; "have a care or " "I do not fear you," said Carmen, calmly; "I will be the first to urge your punishment, if some suspicious circumstance should arise and "
"Carmen, you are doing me an injury." "Ha! ha! If I do you a wrong, I am at the most too easy with you." "Carmen, what is the matter with you?" exclaimed Larsagny, in despair. "Only yesterday you were so affectionate, and now " "Bah! Yesterday is yesterday, and to-day is to-day. Either I find out from you who you really are, or " "Or?"
My name is known on the street and at Court." "Yes, the name of Larsagny; as Monsieur Danglars you are also known, though in a different way." Larsagny trembled and was about to fall. "You lie!" he hissed. "What would you say if I told your sovereign that the man he put at the head of the syndicate is only one of that crowd of unhanged thieves who roam about in the world?"
"God knows," replied Fanfaro; "anyhow, I am glad that they both still live." But the woman Anselmo had rescued at the risk of his life was not Jane, but a gray-haired old lady. In a magnificently furnished house in the Rue de Rivoli sat Carmen, the handsome daughter of the bank director Larsagny. She was pensively gazing at the carpet, and from time to time uttered a low sigh.
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