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"No, sir," he said at last, slowly and gravely. "Neither my son nor I can raise our hands against those who gave us liberty, almost life. Morny, my boy, we will do our duty to the last, and try to keep the poor Roi Dagobert afloat. She may live long enough, even as she has kept afloat so long.
Somebody say it in French! Up with you!" There was no need for the use of another tongue, for a lantern shed its light down upon them, willing hands were ready, and the Count and Morny scrambled aboard. The next moment the Count was giving orders for a rope to be passed down to the boat. "Make fast, and come on board!" he shouted. "You'll never get back to-night."
I will watch!" Signor Fagiano was standing, when Monsieur de Laisangy entered the room. He was a man of fifty, but extremely fine looking, with a little of the air of the Duc de Morny in his best days. He had, however, a scar across one cheek that disfigured him. No one would have recognized him as the convict Benedetto. Laisangy entered with a pale face of disdain.
It is, however, quite in its infancy; it was planned for a handsome and extensive watering-place, but the death of the Duc de Morny has stopped its growth, large tracts of land, in what should be the town, still lying waste. No matter how small or uninteresting the locality, if it is to be fashionable, il n'y aura point de difficulté.
"Does your majesty remember the night that Morny lay dying in the shadows? And that horrible croak from the darkness when he raised himself on one elbow and gasped, 'Sire, prenez garde
"Better that I should stop to make sure of his whereabouts," he thought; and drove straight to the Champs Elysees, where Mr. Fairfax had his bachelor quarters. Here he saw the valet, who had not long returned from that diplomatic expedition to the neighbourhood of the Rue de Morny; but who appeared the very image of unconsciousness and innocence notwithstanding. Mr.
"It's of no use to argue a matter like this with an Englishman," said Morny. "He cannot see such things with the eyes of a Frenchman." "And a jolly good job too," said Rodd. "But we are running away from what we have been talking about.
"Well, if that would give you any satisfaction," said Morny, laughing, "I wish that a shoal would rise." "Don't you be in such a hurry; I hadn't finished.
A man who shuts himself up meditates, and for such men to meditate is to premeditate. What could be the premeditation of Louis Bonaparte? What was working in his mind. Questions which all asked themselves, two persons excepted, Morny, the man of thought; Saint-Arnaud, the man of action. Louis Bonaparte claimed, justly, a knowledge of men.
Petersburg, very strikingly resembled the first Napoleon, though all were of much larger size. But the Louis Napoleons, that is, the emperor and his brother the Duc de Morny, had no single Napoleonic point in their features or bearing.
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