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If he's alive he'll stay where he is. Cheer up! Take my word, Olivier Delagarde has only himself to fear." He put out his hand. "Good-bye. If ever I can do anything for you, if you ever want to find me, come or send to no, I'll write it," he suddenly added, and scribbling something on a piece of paper he handed it over.
"No, no!" cried Madame Mollot; "you are putting incongruities into my mouth. The stranger was standing up; he held a sponge in his hand above an immense basin, and none of your jokes, Monsieur Olivier! it wasn't his knee, it was his head! He was washing his bald head; he hasn't a spear of hair upon it." "Impudent man!" said Antonin.
'Listen, Olivier, he said, 'to what I am going to do. A considerable time ago I had to make a necklace and bracelets for Henrietta of England, supplying the stones myself. I made of this the best piece of work that ever I turned out, and it broke my heart to part with those ornaments, which had become the very treasures of my soul. You know of her unfortunate death by assassination.
Formerly, Olivier Bertin had passed six weeks or two months at Roncieres every year; but in the past three years rheumatism had sent him to watering-places at some distance, which had so much revived his love for Paris that after his return he could not bring himself to leave it.
The day after that of Fielden's conference with his wife, an unexpected visitor came to the house. Olivier Dalibard called. He had not seen Lucretia since she had left Laughton, nor had any correspondence passed between them. He came at dusk, just after Mainwaring's daily visit was over, and Lucretia was still in the parlour, which she had appropriated to herself.
But they were too petty to have thus disheartened her. "I am exacting," she thought. "I have no right to torment myself in this way." She opened her window, to breathe the night air, and leaned on the window-sill, gazing at the moon. A slight noise made her look down. Olivier was pacing before the castle.
There, my gossip," he pursued, addressing Master Olivier, "let us not get angry; we are old friends. 'Tis very late. We have terminated our labors. Shave me."
"I can not but approve this generous project, and I pray you give me to wot all your proceedings " "Ah! the old language of the last reign!" said Olivier. "He can't say 'Make me acquainted with your proceedings, as we now say." "Let me read, for Heaven's sake!" said the Abbe; "a hundred years hence they'll laugh at our phrases."
About eighteen months or two years after the events which terminate this story, when search was made in that cavern for the body of Olivier le Daim, who had been hanged two days previously, and to whom Charles VIII. had granted the favor of being buried in Saint Laurent, in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace.
Before dying he implicated Mattingley in several robberies, and a notorious case of piracy of three months before, committed within gunshot of the men-of- war lying in the tide-way. Carcaud, seriously wounded, to save his life turned King's evidence, and disclosed to the Royal Court in private his own guilt and Olivier Delagarde's treason.
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