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Nais had to ask him on account of her parents, a matter of policy, you know." Then, taking the arm of one of his friends, the same youth continued: "Hey, Ernest," he said, "I'd like a cigar; suppose we find a quiet corner, out of the way of all this racket?"
I know somewhat of men, even men of your stamp, Deucalion, and you will never forget that you came very near to loving me once." I think, too, she said something further, concerning Nais, but the bellowing rush of the waters drowned all other words.
And all the while he shall remember that I have Nais near me, living and locked in her coffin of stone, to play with as I choose, and to give over to what insults may come to my fancy. That is what she said, Deucalion. Now I ask you again will you go back to meet her vengeance?" "No," I said, "it is no part of my plan to be mutilated and left to live." "So, being a woman of some sense, I judged.
I gripped my axe, and the muscles of my arms stood out in knots at the thought of it. Would Tatho come to give me sport? I feared not. They would send only the common soldiers first to the storm, and I must be content to do my killing on those. And Nais, what of her? I had a quiet mind there.
The old country gentleman's hospitality was handsomely repaid, for the Abbe undertook his daughter's education. Anais, or Nais, as she was called must otherwise have been left to herself, or, worse still, to some coarse-minded servant-maid.
This woman, Nais, interested me vastly out of the common; the mere presence of her seemed to warm the organs of my interior; and whilst she was there, all my thoughts and senses were present in the room of the captain of the gate in which we sat.
"Nais," said Madame de Camps, sternly, "children should be silent when their opinion is not asked." "What is the matter," said Monsieur de l'Estorade, joining the group. "Nothing," said Madame de Camps; "only a giddiness Renee had in dancing." "Is it over?" "Yes, I am quite well again," said Madame de l'Estorade.
Like Spanish grandees and the old Austrian nobility at Vienna, these folk, men and women alike, called each other by their Christian names, a final shade of distinction in the inmost ring of Angoumoisin aristocracy. Lucien loved Nais as a young man loves the first woman who flatters him, for Nais prophesied great things and boundless fame for Lucien.
But I have no leisure now to stand before you with argument. Come to the Sacred Mountain, fight me this wanton, upstart Empress, and by my beard you shall have your Nais as you left her as a reward." "It is a command of the High Council which shall be obeyed. I will come with my brother now, as soon as he is rested."
Lucien saw the dignified face of M. de Negrepelisse, the old provincial noble, a relic of the old French noblesse, sitting beside Nais. When Gentil announced M. de Rubempre, the white-headed old man gave him a keen, curious glance; the father was anxious to form his own opinions of this man whom his daughter had singled out for notice.
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