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D'Hérouville was again out of hospital; and De Leviston had stolen quietly away to Montreal, where he was shortly to succumb to the plague. Only three persons knew of the remarkable conflict between the marquis and D'Hérouville: the son, Brother Jacques, and the Vicomte d'Halluys, who possessed that mysterious faculty of finding out many things of which the majority were unaware.
The gentlemen left the table with him. Outside, Victor approached D'Hérouville, ignoring De Leviston. The vicomte followed in the rear. "Monsieur d'Hérouville, you have a bad heart," said the poet. "You have laughed insolently at a man whose misfortune is none of his own making. You are a poltroon and a coward!" The vicomte interposed. "D'Hérouville, listen to me.
"Monsieur de Leviston," he said, "you have wilfully broken and destroyed the peace and dignity of my household. I shall cross you from my list, and the sooner you return to Montreal, the better. Your peculiar sense of honor in no wise appeals to me. It is an ignoble revenge; for do not doubt that I know your own history, Monsieur, and also the part the Chevalier had in it.
The air, the constant labor, and the natural medicine which he inhaled in the forests, had given a nervous springiness to his step and had cleared his eyes till the whites were like china. No; the Chevalier need have no fear of De Leviston, was the vicomte's mental comment. "Well, you do look proper. The wine is all out of your system, and there is balsam in your blood. A wonderful country!"
But believing you had come to this country to repair your honor, I have assisted you by inviting you to partake of my bounty and of my friendship." De Leviston paled, and turned a scowling face to those about him. He found no sympathy in any eye, not even in D'Hérouville's.
Mayenne, Lorraine, Guise, Nemours, Mercoeur, Montpensier, Joyeuse, Epernon, Brissac, D'Arlincourt, Balagny, Rochefort, Villeroy, Villars, Montespan, Leviston, Beauvillars, and countless others, figured in the great financier's terrible account-book, from Mayenne, set down at the cool amount of three and a half millions, to Beauvoir or Beauvillars at the more modest price of a hundred and sixty thousand livres.
How long before De Leviston and D'Hérouville will be out of hospital?" "D'Hérouville, any day; De Leviston has a bad fever, having taken cold." The marquis had not acquired the habit of smoking, so the governor lit his pipe and smoked alone. "Your Excellency, who is this handsome young priest who goes by the name of Brother Jacques; of what family?"
Presently the same arm reached out and snuffed the candle. "Shall you ever go back to France, Paul?" A sigh from the other side of the room. "I saw the vicomte talking to De Leviston to-day. De Leviston was scowling. They separated when I approached." "Will you have the goodness to go to sleep?" "What the devil brings De Leviston so high on this side the water?" Silence.
"The Vicomte d'Halluys against the Comte d'Hérouville, and Monsieur de Saumaise against De Leviston. D'Hérouville and De Leviston are both in hospital." "D'Hérouville? What had he to do with the affair?" "He laughed," said the governor; "he laughed when De Leviston accused your son of not knowing who his mother was." "Thank you, Monsieur. I see that you are in great puzzle.
"It has grown heavy since the last time I put it on," observed the marquis, thoughtfully, weighing the blade on his palms. "Those were merry days," reminiscently. "Monsieur goes abroad to-night?" essayed the lackey, experiencing an old-time thrill. "Yes, but alone. Now, a cup of wine undiluted. Monsieur de Leviston is still in the hospital?" "Yes, Monsieur."
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