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Annabel shook the rain of misty hair at the sides of her rose pink face, and laughed a joyful retort. "No wonder poor Prince Jerome had to go to America for a wife! Did you ever see such hairy faced frights as these Parisians of the Empire! Lazarre fell ill looking at them. He pretends he doesn't see women, monsieur, and goes about with his coat skirts loaded with books.
And I had a suspicion the soft life at De Chaumont's had unstrung me for what was before me. But it lasted scarce a year, and I was built for hardship. He turned to his table to write the ship-master's letter. Behold, there lay a book I knew so well that I exclaimed "Where did you get my missal?" "Your missal, Lazarre? This is mine." I turned the leaves, and looked at the back.
I am too thrifty a Frenchman to dissipate the hoards of the state in foreign parts! Yet, if you question my taste I will not say my honesty, Lazarre " "I question nothing, monsieur! I ask advice." "Eh, bien! Then do not be quite as punctilious as the gentleman who got turned out of the debtor side of Ste. Pélagie into an alley. 'This will not do, says he.
Paul!" "Oh, Madame!" I said, bewildered, and sick as from a stab. It was no comfort that the high lady who scarcely allowed me to kiss her hand before we parted, clung around my neck. She trembled against me. "Have you come back to your mother, Paul?" "Eagle!" I pleaded. "Don't you know me? You surely know Lazarre!"
I mounted the steps to give it to her, and she said, "Thank you, Lazarre Williams. Every day you learn some pretty new trick. Doctor Chantry has not brought me anything from the woods in a long while." Doctor Chantry stirred his gouty feet and looked hopelessly out at the landscape. "Sit here by your dearest Annabel," said Mademoiselle de Chaumont.
"Well, you're not. By the way, why are you looking so wan if she is beautiful and kind?" "I didn't say she was beautiful and kind for me, did I?" "No, of course not. She has jilted you, the wretch. Your dearest Annabel will console you, Lazarre!" She clasped my arm with both hands. "Madame de Ferrier's husband is alive!" "What consolation is there in that?" "A great deal for me.
But the throne of France is not clamoring so loud for a Bourbon at present that the idiot's substitute must be proclaimed and hold a beggar's court. There are mad loyalists who swear by this eighteenth Louis. I am not one of them. In fact, Lazarre, I was rather out of tune with your house!" "Not you!" I said. "I do not fit in these times.
"You are a lucky man, Citizen Lazarre, to gain the marquis for your friend. I have been trying a number of years to make him mine." "All Frenchmen are the friends of Napoleon," the marquis said to me. I spoke directly to the sovereign, thereby violating etiquette, my friend told me afterwards, laughing; and Bonaparte was a stickler for precedent.
The other malcontent was Lazarre M
I felt abashed by the looks these courtiers gave me, but the marquis put them readily in the background, and delighted in the poppet, taking her quite to himself. "We hear such wonderful stories about you, Lazarre! Besides, Doctor Chantry came to see us and told us all he knew. Remember, Lazarre belonged to us before you discovered him, monsieur the Marquis du Plessy! He and I are Americans!"
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