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Updated: May 14, 2025
It was not so very heavy, but it was clumsy to handle." "Will you not accept a glass of wine?" "No, thank you. I must hasten back. Au revoir, Mademoiselle Lacheneur." "Au revoir, Poignot." This name Poignot had no significance in the ears of Blanche.
Father Poignot was doubtless, even then, awaiting her at the rendezvous. She lifted the hearth-stone, and found the sum of money which Chanlouineau had named. The next morning, when he awoke, the abbe received the money. Now, Marie-Anne could breathe freely; and this peace, after so many trials and agitations, seemed to her almost happiness.
Ah! had she heard Monsieur d'Escorval's or the abbe's name mentioned, she might have felt some doubt of Marie-Anne's guilt; her resolution might have wavered, and who knows? But no. Young Poignot, in referring to the baron had said: "our gentleman," Marie-Anne said: "he." Is not "he" always the person who is uppermost in our minds, the husband whom one hates or the lover whom one adores?
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