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After dinner, when we left the table, Lebel paid me some compliments; then pulling out his watch, he spoke of an appointment at the Marais, and left without saying a word of seeing us again. At this abrupt departure, comte Jean and I looked at each other with astonishment. As for Morand, he was overjoyed.
The view from Château Montsuy must, from the nature of the ground, be just the same, or, perhaps, even superior: and, what is more to the purpose, the Baroness de Vouty, in whose garden this old tower stands, seldom admits either Lyonnese or strangers to see it. On descending from the Croix Rousse, cross the Rhone by the Pont Morand, the wooden bridge next to that of La Guillotiere.
"Good heavens, sergeant, are you bringing thieves here? Where do you expect me to put them? Surely there's enough trouble in the house as it is!" The gendarme, Morand, smiled with the disillusioned air of a man who knows very well what trouble is, and the sergeant replied: "Put them?
A word concerning the duchesse de Choiseul The apartment of the Comte de Noailles The Noailles Intrigues for presentation The comte de Bearn M. Morand once more Visit of the comtesse Bearn to the comtesse du Barry Conversation Interested complaisance The king and the comtesse du Barry Dispute and reconciliation
In his memoirs of the old Academy of Surgery in Paris, Morand speaks of a monk who, to cure a violent colic, introduced into his fundament a bottle of l'eau de la reine de Hongrie, with a small opening in its mouth, by which the contents, drop by drop, could enter the intestine. He found he could not remove the bottle, and violent inflammation ensued.
Morand's division first entered the town: it was marching on with confidence, under the idea that the action was over, when the Russians, who were concealed by the windings of the streets, suddenly fell upon it. The surprise was complete and the confusion great: Morand nevertheless rallied and re-encouraged his men, retrieved matters, and fought his way through.
The lawyer, to whom madame de Bearn was to pay a visit on that very day, did not fail to repeat what M. Morand had told him. The next day the comtesse, like a true litigant, called upon him: she related her affair to him, and begged him to use his interest with me. "I would do it with pleasure," said the worthy, "if I did not think it better that you should see the comtesse du Barry yourself.
In fact, had General St. Cyr been better informed, or less easily alarmed, he might have kept Hamburg, and prevented its temporary occupation by the enemy, to dislodge whom it was necessary to besiege the city two months afterwards. St. Cyr had 3000 regular troops, and a considerable body of men in the custom-house service. General Morand could have furnished him with 5000 men from Mecklenburg.
Several persons entered, and M. Morand, profiting by the bustle which their entrance occasioned, approached me, and said, in a low tone, "You are in possession of his heart, will you charge me with any message to him?" "M. Morand," was my reply, "what are you thinking of? A woman of my rank throw herself at any person's head?"
"He is, I tell you," the old woman insisted; "and the little man who generally goes about with him is here too." "You mean M. Gigou, his clerk?" "Very likely," muttered Louise. "I leave the prisoners with you, Morand," said the sergeant curtly; "don't let them out of your sight. I am going to the magistrate. I have no doubt he will wish to interrogate these fellows at once."
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