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The beverage warmed him in body; but it would need a butt of it to thaw the misery from his soul. "Rabecque," he said with a pathetic grimness, "I think I am the most cursed blunderer that ever was entrusted with an errand." The thing so obsessed his mind that he must speak of it, if it be only to his lackey. Rabecque's sharp face assumed a chastened look. He sighed most dutifully.
And now he had to endure the hardest trial of all. The stranger's expression changed to one of wondering scorn. "Do I understand that monsieur apologizes?" Garnache felt himself crimsoning; his self-control was slipping from him; the pressure against his shoulder blade was renewed, and in time he became aware of it and knew it for a warning from Rabecque.
She stood there a moment between the two ruffians who had been sent to fetch her, and her eyes travelling round that room discovered Rabecque in his undignified and half; strangled condition. "Where... Where is Monsieur de Garnache?" she faltered. "He is where all those who cross the will of Condillac must sooner or later find themselves," said Marius airily. "He is... disposed of."
From several doorways other men emerged, some of martial bearing, showing that the place was garrisoned to some extent. Garnache took little heed of them. He flung his reins to the man whom he had first addressed the fellow had kept pace beside him and leapt nimbly to the ground, bidding Rabecque await him there.
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