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"Where have you lived?" he laughed. I told him it didn't matter where people lived; it all depended on whether they understood or not. "What a sage! I think I'm one of the people who will never be able to understand," said Jerome. I said he did not look as if he had been idiotic, and both he and Mademoiselle de Chaumont laughed. "Monsieur" "Lazarre Williams," supplemented Annabel.
Lazarre, he kill Paul they fight!" Carey, with a smothered oath, rushed across the street. He had been afraid of something of the sort, and had advised Paul not to go, for those half-breed carouses almost always ended in a free fight. He burst into the kitchen at Joe Esquint's, to find a circle of mute spectators ranged around the room and Paul and Lazarre in a clinch in the center.
The count was not in the mayor's office. A civil marriage was going forward, and a strange bridal party looked at us. "Now, Lazarre," the strategist confided, "your dearest Annabel is going to cover herself with Parisian disgrace. You don't know how maddening it is to have every step dogged by a woman who never was, never could have been and manifestly never will be young!
I do not like those English muslins, sold at the price of their weight in gold, and which do not look half as well as beautiful white leno. Wear leno, cambric, or silk, ladies, and then my manufactures will flourish." I wondered if he would remember the face of the man pushed against his wheel and called an assassin, when the Marquis du Plessy named me to him as the citizen Lazarre.
They both stood severely reserved, passively loosening the filial bond. All the business of life was suspended, as when there is death in the lodge. Skenedonk and I sat down together on a bunk. "Lazarre," my father spoke, "do you want to be educated?" The things we pine for in this world are often thrust upon us in a way to choke us.
It would not go well with the next stranger who declared he knew me by my scars. "What do they call you in this country?" inquired Madame Tank. I said my name was Lazarre Williams. "It is not!" she said in an undertone, shaking her head. I made bold to ask with some warmth what my name was then, and she whispered "Poor child!" It seemed that I was to be pitied in any case.
"But didn't his friend the Marquis du Plessy discover the robbery? Why didn't he follow and take the thief?" "Dead men don't follow, monsieur the abbé. The Marquis du Plessy had a duel on his hands, and was killed the day after this Lazarre left Paris." Of all Bellenger's absurd fabrications this story was the most ridiculous. I laughed again.
"Let us have a glass of wine and enjoy the sun," he said in the breeze flowing around his chapel. "And do you hear that little citizen of the tree trunks, Lazarre?" The perfume of the woods rose invisibly to a cloudless sky. My last tryst with my friend was an hour in paradise's antechamber.
"This is not the boy you had in London, monsieur," she said to Bellenger. The potter waved his hands and shrugged. "You believe, madame, that Lazarre is the boy you saw in London?" said Louis Philippe. "I am certain of it." "What proofs have you?" "The evidence of my eyes." "Tell that to Monsieur!" exclaimed the potter. "Who is Monsieur?" I asked.
It was my daily effort to fall in with her happiness, for if she saw any anxiety she was quick to plead: "Don't you like me any more, Paul? Are you tired of me, because I am a Cloud-Mother?" "No," I would answer. "Lazarre will never be tired of you." "Do you think I am growing smaller? Will you love me if I shrink to a baby?" "I will love you."
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