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"Gentlemen should fight with the small sword." "Oh, I like that!" said Rodd merrily. "And then one of them sticks it in the other's corpus and makes him bleed, if he does nothing worse. Why, people have been killed." "Yes, in the cause of honour," said Morny, slowly and thoughtfully. "But that wouldn't have happened if they had been fighting with their fists."
Apropos of the Duke de Morny, he said of himself: "I am a very complicated person. Je suis le fils d'une reine, frere d'un Empereur et gendre d'un Empereur, et tous sont illegitimes." It does sound queer! There you have a complicated case. He is very good-looking without being handsome, and belongs to one of the most distinguished families in Germany.
Have I been to sleep?" "Well, yes, you have been to sleep," said Morny, smiling at him in a rather peculiar way. "What are you laughing at?" "Oh, I was only smiling at you." "What, am I scratched and knocked about?" "Oh, very slightly." "But I say, I am so precious hungry. What time is it?" "Just upon six. Some bells or another, as you call it." "Get out!
This Morny, this Romieu, this Fould, the Jew senator, this Delangle, who bears on his back this placard: JUSTICE! and this Troplong, this judicial glorifier of the violation of the laws, this lawyer apologist of the coup d'état, this magistrate flatterer of perjury, this judge panegyrist of murder, who will go down to posterity with a sponge filled with mud and with blood in his hand.
"No," said Morny musingly; "we want nothing to make us recollect them." "But I suppose it is nearly all over now, for our voyages will soon come to an end." "Oh no?" cried Morny eagerly. "Why should they, now that your uncle and my father have become such friends?" The lads both started, for those of whom they were speaking just then strolled up behind them.
"Of course," replied Morny; "and at last there came a time when we heard a little news from across the sea news which seemed to make my father the Count half wild with longing, and one day he told me that he had had a lot of napoleons sent to him to help him to escape, and that the first fine day we were allowed out for exercise upon the moor we would make a dash for liberty."
Morny! The three-master's going down!" It was quite true, for the first shot from the Maid of Salcombe, that sent from the long gun, crammed as Joe had said almost to the muzzle, had torn into the slaver just below water-line.
A republican so aristocratic was not to be tolerated by the true-born Americans who paid court to De Morny for the phosphorescent splendors of St. Cloud and the Tuileries, and Miss Helen lost their favor. But she had already saved enough money for the Conservatoire and a little attic in a very tall house in a narrow street that trickled into the ceaseless flow of the Rue Lafayette.
M. de Gabriac had been replaced by M. de Saligny, a creature of the Duc de Morny, whose personal interest in the Jecker bonds was freely discussed. The new minister arrived in June, 1861. His orders were to enforce recognition of the validity of the Jecker bonds.
"Look here," said Rodd, almost hotly, one day, "if ever you say a word again about my helping you to escape at Dartmoor, you and I are going to leave off being friends." Morny laughed, a pleasant, almost girlish smile lighting up his well-cut Gallic features. "Why, Rodd," he cried, "isn't that rather hard?
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