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But to the other the matter which has brought me hither; will you put me in the way of finding Father Matthieu?" We had talked on through the measures of a cotillion, and the dancers, warm and wearied, were beginning to fill the entrance hall below. Our poor excuse for privacy would be gone in a minute or two, and she spoke quickly. "You shall see Father Matthieu, and I will help you.
So much for the profitableness of debate between confirmed partisans. Emile Henry was representative of the theoretical dynamitard; Matthieu, like Ravachol, of the dynamitard by passion. A , who belonged rather to the Ravachol type, and ended by killing one of the crowned heads of Europe, was during a few weeks a frequenter of the Tocsin.
Limpet, and O'Brien who had returned after satisfying himself as to the true identity of the false Matthieu, who had driven straight home, kept pacing up and down in front of the area railings, evidently half suspecting that we had played them a trick. All that night we sat round the kitchen fire, chatting and dozing alternately.
It was in the early part of the winter when we started from Rome for Venice, and we were travelling northward by diligence because the railways were still more or less interrupted by the storms and floods predicted of Matthieu de la Drôme, the only reliable prophet France has produced since Voltaire; and if our accident was caused by an overruling Providence, the company, according to the very law of its existence, was not responsible.
But I do know that, as the hours dragged on leadenshod, a slow fever of impatience came to dry the blood in my veins; to make me hunger and thirst for leave to say the final word to Father Matthieu, and so to be set at liberty to find the bottom of the pit into which a mocking fate had plunged me. 'Twas all over now.
"But I thought you were in the dining-room, and I wanted Lucy." "You thought I was with John Graham Bretton, I suppose? But he has just been called out: he will be back soon, Polly. He can post your letter for you; it will save Matthieu a 'course, as he calls it." "I don't post letters," said she, rather pettishly. "What do you do with them, then? come here and tell me."
"What mistake was that?" inquired Matthieu with sympathy. "Why, she married an American who was the less we say about him the better. The point is, Alice is half American, and ever since she has been old enough to take notice, she has been crazy about American men." He leaned closer and, lowering his voice, added: "That's why I had to send her to Paris five years ago." "You don't say!"
The historian, P. Matthieu, relates that Philip assembled his council of conscience; that they recommended mercy; that hereupon Philip gave the matter to the inquisition, by which tribunal Carlos was declared a heretic on account of his connexion with Protestants, and for his attempt against his father's life was condemned to death, and that the sentence was executed by four slaves, two holding the arms, one the feet, while the fourth strangled him.
More than that, he seemed in excellent spirits, and as he sat down to Mother Bonneton's modest luncheon he nodded good-naturedly to Matthieu, the substitute watchman, whom the sacristan introduced, not too awkwardly, then he fell to eating with a hearty appetite and without any sign of embarrassment or suspicion.
In reference to the family's devotion, Adrien wrote to her, "My son is fascinated by you, and you know that I am so also. It is the fate of the Montmorencys, "'Ils ne mouraient pas tous, mais tout étaient frappés." Adrien was a man of wit, and he had more ability than Matthieu.
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