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His first feeling overcome, the angry looks of the old man, and a threatening gesture which he made as he advanced toward the study revealed a resolution so alarming that Madame de Lucenay caught him by the hand, stopped him, and said, in a low tone, with the most profound conviction, "He is innocent; I swear to you! Listen in silence."
Besides, Madame de Lucenay, yielding to her natural kind impulses, had only thought of being useful to Florestan, without any care whether he could repay or not. He affirmed it, and she did not doubt.
The emotions of Conrad and Florestan had time to be subdued before M. de Lucenay, the least observing man in the world, had perceived anything. Madame de Lucenay, not from embarrassment she was not a woman to be untimely embarrassed but the presence of Florestan was repugnant and unsupportable, said to the duke, "When you are ready, we will go. I am to present Conrad to Madame de Senneval."
"How indifferent you must suppose me to be as regards anything concerning you, my dear Henry!" said D'Harville, extending his hand to Lucenay; "but it was only this morning I heard of your disagreeable adventure." "Disagreeable! come now, marquis! I got the worth of my money, as they say. I never laughed so much in my life! M. Robert appeared so solemnly determined not to pass for having a cold.
"Give me your arm, Conrad." Lucenay followed the duchess with Saint Remy, who was almost beside himself with rage. "Are you not coming with us to the Sennevals'?" said Lucenay to him. "No, impossible," answered he hastily. "By the way, Saint Remy, Madame de Senneval is another one what do I say, one? two-whom I would sacrifice willingly; for her husband is also on my list." "What list?"
Then he turned and twisted himself on the sofa, accompanying his loud cries with a series of somersaults that would have astonished a rope-dancer. The acrobatic evolutions were interrupted by the arrival of Saint Remy. "I have no need to ask if Lucenay is here," said the viscount, gayly. "He can be heard below."
I only regret I can do nothing for your future welfare-it is a pleasure that your friends have reserved." Madame Armand entered suddenly, with an alarmed air. "Madame," said she to Clemence, with hesitation, "I am grieved at the message I have to deliver to you." "What do you mean to say, madame?" "The Duke de Lucenay is below-he comes from your house, madame." "You frighten me; what is it?"
If you have been in Paris for any time," continued Madame de Lucenay, "it was very unkind in you not to come to see me; we should have talked so much of the past; for you know I begin to arrive at the age when there is a great charm in talking to old friends." Perhaps the duchess could not have spoken with more nonchalance if she had been receiving a visit at Lucenay House.
"Dear Clemence," answered D'Harville, with constrained emotion; then, after a pause, he added gayly, "I begged you to come here before your departure to inform you that I could not take tea with you this morning. I have a number of persons to breakfast with me; it is a kind of impromptu assemblage to congratulate M. de Lucenay on the happy issue of his duel." "What a coincidence!
The only chance, and that was a very faint one, of tracing these unfortunates, rested in Madame de Lucenay, who, fortunately, was on intimate terms with Lady d'Harville. "Here, madame, pay yourself," said Rudolph to the shopkeeper, giving her a note for five hundred francs. "I will give you the difference, sir." "Where can I engage a cart to carry the things?"
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