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Plessy turned upon him angrily, and the subaltern withdrew his hand. "I will read it to you," he said again to Faversham. Faversham did not protest nor did he now make any effort to move. But his face grew pale, he shivered once or twice, his eyes seemed to be taking the measure of Plessy's strength, his brain to be calculating upon his prowess; the sweat began to gather upon his forehead.
The valet de chambre brought in my bath, and while I bathed and dressed I reflected on the luck of him who in middle age can be astonished by a blue sky, and still find the sunlight a bewitchment. But who would not be bewitched by the pretty sunlight that finds its way into the gardens of Plessy?
It ceased to visit me within that year, and has never troubled me at all in later days. Yet, inconsistently, I look back as to the glamour of youth; and though it worked me hurt and shame, I half regret that it is gone. The more I saw of the Marquis du Plessy the more my slow tenacious heart took hold on him. We went about everywhere together.
As it is possible that my foreman may arrive too late to accomplish this mission, I should be much obliged if you would inquire at my house at Plessy, if he has yet come, and, in case of his still being absent, if you would take his place at the opening of the house in the Rue Saint-Francois.
There is something ghostlike in the out-of-date. The landscape about Plessy had transported us back into antiquity, making us dream of nymphs and dryads, but the gilt cornices and damask hangings and the salon at Orelay had made us dream of a generation ago, of the youth of our parents.
Captain Plessy, however, was too quick for him, he lifted his hand to his breast. "You wish for something to smoke. It is true, we have forgotten to smoke, but I have my cigarettes and I beg you to try them, the tobacco I think is good and you will be saved the trouble of moving." He opened the case and reached it over to Faversham.
If I were yet in France; if the Marquis du Plessy had lived; if I had not gone to Mittau; if the self I might have been, that always haunts us, stood ready to take advantage of the turn Yet the thing which cannot be understood by men reared under old governments had befallen me. I must have drawn the wilderness into my blood. Its possibilities held me.
"You have not given me your real reason, Captain Plessy," he said. Captain Plessy did not answer a word. "Good-night, gentlemen," said Faversham and Captain Plessy bowed deeply as Faversham left the room. A silence of some duration followed upon the closing of the door. The two subalterns were as perplexed as Faversham to account for their hero's conduct. They sat dumb and displeased.
She held a crook massed with ribbons and rosebuds in her hand, rallying the men to her standard by the lively chatter which they like better than wisdom. Mademoiselle Annabel gave me her hand to kiss, and made room for the Marquis du Plessy and me in her circle.
At the marquis' order he had laid out one for a ball. Of my old clothes not a piece was to be seen. The miracle was that what he put upon me fitted me. I became transformed like my servant and my secretary, and stood astonished at the result. "Enter the prince of a fairy tale," said the Marquis du Plessy when the lackey ushered me into the garden.
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