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'O madam, cried Annette, 'I would not tell for the universe! 'I insist upon your telling this instant, said Madame Montoni. 'O dear madam! I would not tell for a hundred sequins! You would not have me forswear myself madam! exclaimed Annette. 'I will not wait another moment, said Madame Montoni. Annette was silent.
She was then going to place herself by her aunt; but Montoni waved his hand, and two of the cavaliers rose, and seated her between them. The eldest of these was a tall man, with strong Italian features, an aquiline nose, and dark penetrating eyes, that flashed with fire, when his mind was agitated, and, even in its state of rest, retained somewhat of the wildness of the passions.
'Is a marriage with a man, who adores you, so very terrible in your eyes, that you would prefer to it all the misery, to which Montoni may condemn you in this remote prison?
'Draw! cried Montoni to the Count, who did not pause for a second bidding, but, giving Emily into the hands of the people, that appeared from the stair-case, turned fiercely round.
'This affectation of fear ill becomes the heroine who has just dared to brave my indignation. 'Did you hear nothing, Signor? said Emily, trembling, and still unable to leave the room. 'I heard my own voice, rejoined Montoni, sternly. 'And nothing else? said Emily, speaking with difficulty. 'There again! Do you hear nothing now? 'Obey my order, repeated Montoni.
'The fates are propitious, said she 'to-night Montoni shall find me without a husband. Mr. Hedge and Julia dined alone; dispensing with the attendance of a servant, they never were more sociable or more affectionate together. The old gentleman was in high spirits. 'My dear, said he, 'your presence to-day inspires me with an unusual degree of happiness and egad, I feel younger than ever.
There she met the gentlemen lately arrived, who had a kind of busy seriousness in their looks, which was somewhat unusual with them, while their thoughts seemed too much occupied by some deep interest, to suffer them to bestow much attention either on Emily, or Madame Montoni. They spoke little, and Montoni less. Emily, as she now looked on him, shuddered.
Madame Montoni was exceedingly rejoiced to be once more on level ground; and, after giving a long detail of the various terrors she had suffered, which she forgot that she was describing to the companions of her dangers, she added a hope, that she should soon be beyond the view of these horrid mountains, 'which all the world, said she, 'should not tempt me to cross again. Complaining of fatigue she soon retired to rest, and Emily withdrew to her own room, when she understood from Annette, her aunt's woman, that Cavigni was nearly right in his conjecture concerning the musician, who had awakened the violin with so much taste, for that he was the son of a peasant inhabiting the neighbouring valley.
She stood for a moment hesitating whether she should follow Montoni, who, at the sound of the trumpet, had passed through the hall, and, turning her eyes whence it came, she saw through the door, that opened beyond a long perspective of arches into the courts, a party of horsemen, whom she judged, as well as the distance and her embarrassment would allow, to be the same she had seen depart, a few days before.
The silence of Valancourt afflicted more than it surprised her, since she attributed it to its just occasion; but, when the day, preceding that, on which she was to quit Tholouse, arrived, and she had heard no mention of his being permitted to take leave of her, grief overcame every consideration, that had made her reluctant to speak of him, and she enquired of Madame Montoni, whether this consolation had been refused.
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