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Margari had respectfully solicited the hand of her lady-companion, there is no reason to suppose he would have sued in vain; but Clementina was far too romantic for anything so humdrum as that. She insisted that he should abduct her, at night too and through a window, although she had the key of every door close at hand. So Margari had managed to set up as a gentleman and become his own master.
He was frightened because every box on the ears he gave used regularly to cost him 200 florins, a very costly passion to indulge in. And besides he was particularly anxious just then to keep Margari in a good humour. A man may loathe a viper but he had better not tread on its tail if he cannot tread on its head.
Margari instantly imagined that his honour's flashing eyes, convulsive mouth and distorted face were the outward signs of a jocose frame of mind, for there was always a sort of travesty of humour in Mr. John's features whenever he was angry. So, to his own confusion, it occurred to him to make a joke for the first time in his life. "Crying your honour's pardon, I flew," said he.
Margari searched every corner of the sea for it, and at last looked for it on the dry land also without finding it. Tiring at length with the fruitless search he proposed, as the best way out of the difficulty, that he should write on the afternoon of the following day to Monsieur Alexander Dumas himself to explain to his honour where the island used to be and whether it still existed.
Surely Miss Henrietta could not be so unreasonable as to expect poor Margari to chuck such a piece of good fortune out of the window, especially as she had given him nothing herself. At that moment someone knocked at the door and enquired whether Mr. Margari was there.
I boxed his ears for molesting me, and then I gave him 200 florins which is the usual legal fine for an assault of that kind, to prevent him bringing an action against me. We have nothing else in common. Take him away by all means. Put him in irons. Give him whatever punishment he has deserved. Yes," he continued, seizing the astounded Margari by the cravat, "you are a refined scoundrel.
And still Margari went on reading. By this time Monte Cristo had had himself sewn up in a sack and flung into the sea as a corpse. "Would you have dared to have that done to you, Margari?" interrupted Mr. Demetrius.
But scarcely had Margari struggled through a few lines when Henrietta again became fidgety and said she longed for something to eat. The good-natured Clementina jumped with joy at this sign of returning appetite, and asked her what she would like and how she would like it. Scarcely had Clementina shut the door behind her when Henrietta interrupted Margari's elocution.
So he kept on whining and limped first on one leg and then on the other and plastered his whole face over with blood from the one little scratch he had got. Mr. John hastened to wipe Margari's face with his own pocket handkerchief. "Come, come my dear Margari. I have told you I did not mean to do it. Here are the two hundred florins I promised you. But now leave me alone.
"It concerns you, sir, in this way: you told me that Margari was your confidential agent, and therefore he must have destroyed the bill at your bidding." "I only said that to help him to get a small official post. I am responsible for nobody. What have I to do with the characters of my servants, my lacqueys." "But you assured me that your bills often passed through his hands." Mr.
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