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For an instant the two stood in the gloom, breathless, stricken still, confounded. Then with a single impulse they lifted the body between them, and huddled blindly towards the door of the Portails' house. It opened at their touch, they stumbled in, and it fell to behind them. The foremost of the armed watch had been within ten paces of them. The escape was narrow. Yet they had escaped.
It follows that we cannot hope to learn much of the fortunes of people so insignificant save for that moment when the fate of a nation hung on their breath as the Portails and Toussaints. We do know that Felix proved worthy. For though the attack on Paris which was planned at Toussaint's house, failed, it did not fail through treachery.
And we know that Felix married Madeline, and that Adrian won Marie: but no more. Unless certain Portails now living in various parts of the world, whose ancestors left France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, are their descendants. And certainly it is curious that in these families it is not rare to find the eldest son bearing the name of Henry, and the second of Felix.
The chapel to St Mary did not make its appearance for some years, and the side portails were only added in the fifteenth century.
The chapel to St Mary did not make its appearance for some years, and the side portails were only added in the fifteenth century.
She had seen her lover, and though the interview might have had its drawbacks best known to herself she cared little for a blow in comparison with that. "They will take it in your room," he retorted. "Come, pack, girl! Pack! I will talk to you presently," he added, with meaning. The Portails drew her away.
You take my advice, my dear," she said, turning to la Peyrade; "if such a very big-wig as that wants you to do so, go and see this du Portail, whoever he is. That, it seems to me, won't bind you to anything." "You are right, Brigitte," said Colleville; "as for me, I'd follow up all the Portails, or Porters, or Portents for the matter of that, if they asked me to."
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