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Honoré." "Yes, Monsieur, and may God land you there safe and sound!" "Tell my father that the only name by which I know my antagonist is Monsieur de Merri. Perhaps he belonged to Montoire; at any rate, he was acquainted there." We soon reached the place where the roads diverge.
The others addressed him as "citizen Merri," and alternately ridiculed and deferred to him. And there was another, equally hateful, a horrible, cadaverous creature, with huge bare feet thrust into sabots, and lank hair, thick with grime.
Merri laughed aloud and threw the cushion down again. "Unpleasant, what? my pretty wench! Well, you know what to expect... unless," he added significantly, "you are reasonable and will listen to what I am about to tell you." Esther was no fool, nor was she unsophisticated.
"He is prevented from coming to you, Madame." Her face, pale before, turned white as a sheet. "But," I hastened to add, "I have come in his stead, and I will serve you as willingly as he." "But that will not do," she said, in great agitation. "Nobody can serve me at this pass but Monsieur de Merri. Where is he? What prevents him?" "I left him at La Flèche," said I lamely.
"In the Rue de Saint Merri, close to the church. We have a house there." "M. de Pavannes," I suggested cunningly, "is doubtless distracted by your disappearance." "Oh, surely," she answered with earnest simplicity, while the tears sprang to her eyes. Her innocence she had not the germ of a suspicion made me grind my teeth with wrath. Oh, the base wretch! The miserable rascal!
Merri monastery, caused the breakdown of Prince Napoleon's Boulogne adventure, occupied the Chamber of Deputies on the 2nd of December, and heroically lost its whole strength twice over in the siege of Paris, it has had the good fortune of being almost the only one of our regiments to keep its arms and its colours amidst all our mishaps.
Merri, Guidal, Rateau, Desmonds. TIENS!" he exclaimed. "Rateau! Is Rateau here now?" "Why, of course! He was recruited, like the rest of them, for the day. He won't leave till he has been paid, you may be sure of that. Why do you ask?" "I will tell you presently. But I would wish to speak with citizen Rateau first." Just at this moment Tournefort paid his periodical visit to the hall.
At Montoire, of course." The speaker, in surprise, scrutinized me again with the keen look he had shown before. It was plain, from his manner, that he chose to be close-mouthed on the subject of Monsieur de Merri. He was one of those people who generally have a desire to talk of themselves and all their affairs, but who can be suddenly very secretive on some particular matter or occasion.
You are amenable to the law which has decreed you to be suspect. I hold an order for your arrest. I can have you seized at once by my men, dragged to the Conciergerie, and from thence nothing can save you neither your good looks nor the protection of citizen Merri. It means the guillotine. You understand that, don't you?" She sat quite still; only her hands were clutched convulsively together.
If he was indeed the messenger, he must have been content with a very short rest for his horse after delivering the note to Monsieur de Merri; must have started from Sablé as soon as, or little later than, Monsieur de Merri himself, to be in La Flèche on the same evening that gentleman arrived there, and to be out of it again before I was, as he must have been if he reached Le Lude by midnight.
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