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Updated: May 16, 2025
"As for the wallet, I had fastened it with a magic chain, so that you need not wonder that you could not open it. "Loge, with whom Loki strove, was no courtier, but a subtle devouring flame that consumed all before it."
He waved his arm in a meaning gesture in the direction in which Loge had disappeared and said, with a gentle shake of his head at Cleggett, as if he were chiding a naughty child: "When thieves fall out ! When thieves fall out, my dear sir!" As he swept by he resumed his magazine with the pleased air of a man who has delivered himself of a brilliant epigram; it showed in his very shoulders.
The water was cold, but they came out refreshed and invigorated by the plunge and feeling fit for any struggle that might be ahead of them. This maneuver on the part of Cleggett and his marines and infantrymen seemed still more to excite the curiosity and contribute to the bewilderment of Loge and his ruffians.
Danglars, I say absolutely, for many sufficient reasons," he quickly added; then, as if to turn the conversation, he hastily remarked: "Ah! there are M. Dantès and M. Lamartine, as usual, together." "M. Dantès!" exclaimed the Count, in surprise, looking around. "Impossible!" "And yet most true," observed Beauchamp; "in the third loge from the Minister's to the right.
When the tunnel had been blocked by the explosion, Loge and his men had burrowed around the obstruction. Cleggett judged that he must be at about the middle of the tunnel. He felt the more solid earth beneath his hands again, and knew that he had passed the rock. The passage now descended deeper into the ground, slanting steeply downward.
They both fell to work to devour what was before them, and met at the middle of the trough. But it was found that while Loki had eaten the flesh of his portion, Loge had eaten, not only the flesh, but the bones also. Therefore Loki, was, of course, vanquished. Then Utgarda Loke turned to Thialfe. "And pray, in what may this youth be specially skilled?" he asked.
He seemed determined to fascinate the whole house, even the Quartier, and he began by ingratiating himself with Clemence and Mme Putois, showing them both the greatest possible attention. These two women adored him at the end of a month. Mme Boche, whom he flattered by calling on her in her loge, had all sorts of pleasant things to say about him.
"Look, beloved," says Loge to the unhappy captive, "there lies the world which you think of conquering for your own. Tell me now, what little corner in it do you intend as a kennel for me?" And he dances around him, snapping his fingers to the prettiest, heartlessly merry fire-music. Alberich replies with raving insult.
To all appearances Loge had an immense advantage over Cleggett; his legs were a good two inches longer; so were his arms. And he knew how to make these peculiarities count. He fought for a while with a calm and steady precision that repeatedly baffled the calculated impetuosity of Cleggett's attack. But the air of bantering certainty with which he had begun the duel had left him.
He had acted as secretary, interpreter, and general factotum, to a whole succession of ambassadors, and thus his little loge, as he called it, had become something of a home.
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