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This I can well believe, for I used to know him, and, to give the devil his due, he is one of the few Prussians of a sociable disposition. The interview lasted for more than two hours. Count Bismarck told Mr. Malet that the Prussians meant to have Metz and Strasburg, and should remain in France until they were obtained.
Malet sat most of the day in Cecile's room, and Maurice came in and out, and now and then an old woman, with an upright figure and French face, came and stood by the bedside and spoke softly and lovingly, but in a tone Cecile could not understand, and a lovely little boy was brought in once a day by his proud young mother, and suffered to give Cecile one kiss before he was taken away again.
"But, Cecile, Cecile," began young Mme. Malet excitedly. So far she had got when the words, eager and important as they were, were stayed on her lips. There was a commotion outside.
He came forward, and knelt at her feet. "Poor Joe! Dear, dear Joe!" answered Cecile, "I always forgave you. I always loved you." "Then perhaps the Lord Christ can forgive me too?" "Oh, yes!" "That's as queer a story as I ever heard," here interrupted Jean Malet. "But I can't go to bed, or rest, without hearing more. How did a little maiden like her yonder come by a purse full of gold?"
'Yes, said Miss Goodwin; 'we will talk of that by-and-by. And she overflowed with comments on my personal appearance, and plied me with questions, but would answer none of mine. I fetched Temple into the box to introduce him. We were introduced in turn to Captain Malet, the gentleman who had accosted me below. 'You understand German, then? said Miss Goodwin.
Malet has been kind enough to give such a favourable report of me that I am appointed lieutenant to the 3rd Regiment of Native Cavalry, and shall be employed as assistant to the resident at Poona, should there be fresh disturbances there." "That is good fortune, indeed," Sufder said. "Wonderfully good fortune! and I owe it all, in the first place to Soyera, and in the next to yourself.
Malet told me, I think you are not likely to be much with us as, from your perfect knowledge of Mahratti, and of the country, you can do better service in a staff appointment than with the regiment. "You are much fairer than they had given me to expect." "I have been hard at work, for the last two days, in getting rid of the dyes with which I have been coloured, ever since I was an infant." "Ah!
Edward Malet, returned to Paris empty-handed, except that he bore a communication positively declining mediation; which message, however, led no doubt to an interview between Bismarck and Favre a couple of days later.
It is true that the numerous addresses he received, and discourses which were pronounced in his presence by the presidents of the senate and the council of state, were no less flattering than formerly; but it was very evident in his replies that if he pretended to forget this disastrous experience in Russia, he was more deeply concerned about the affair of General Malet than anything else.
He had given up playing since his marriage, and was one of the few diplomatists who was not found at the Homburg gaming-tables, but he had a sufficiency of sport and joined with the British envoy, Sir Alexander Malet, in taking some shooting.
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