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Thereupon, he ran out on the staircase to call the concierge to help him in taking down the trunks. Although the manoeuvres required by Papa Ravinet's appearance on board "The Saint Louis" had taken but little time, the delay had been long enough to prevent the ship from going through all the formalities that same evening.
"Still there is one circumstance which I cannot understand: Sarah insists upon it that she knew nothing of the forged letter by means of which Daniel was sent abroad. She told me, on the contrary, that she had wished to keep him here, because she loved him, and he loved her." "Ah! do not believe a word of those infamous stories," broke in Papa Ravinet's sister.
The poor women, reduced as they were to conjectures by Papa Ravinet's laconic answers, nevertheless knew full well that some great event was in preparation, something unexpected, and yet decisive. What it was, they did not know; but they understood, or rather felt, that Daniel's return would and must totally change the aspect of affairs. But would Daniel really come?
The shipwrecked man who is saved at the last moment, when, strength and spirits being alike exhausted, he feels himself sinking into the abyss, cannot, upon feeling once more firm ground under his feet, experience a sense of greater happiness than Henrietta did that night. For the delicious sensation had become deeper and intenser by the evening spent in company with Papa Ravinet's sister.
"What!" he said. "Maxime" "Was arrested last night, and is kept in close confinement." However well prepared Daniel was by Papa Ravinet's account, he could never have hoped to manage the conversation as well as chance did. He replied, "It cannot be for having robbed me. M. de Brevan must have been arrested for having attempted to murder me."
Even if she could not well understand by what ingenious combinations such enormous sums could be abstracted, Henrietta was conquered by Papa Ravinet's sincere and earnest conviction. "Then," she went on, "these wretches who have robbed my father now mean to ruin him!" "They must do it for their own safety. The money has been stolen, you see; therefore there must be a thief.
On the bureau stood a lamp with a shade to prevent the light from hurting the patient's eyes; a bright fire blazed on the hearth; several old curtains had been hung before the window, one before the other, to replace for the time the missing panes; and on the table stood a teakettle, a china cup, and two small medicine-bottles. Evidently the doctor had been here during Ravinet's absence.
She stopped, smiling wickedly, and then added, "Only she is a prodigiously pretty girl; and I was just saying to myself, 'Upon my word, M. Ravinet's taste is not bad." The merchant was on the point of giving her a pretty sharp, indignant reply; but he controlled himself, because he knew how important it was to mislead the woman; and, forcing himself to smile, he said,
"Only, I pray you, promise me solemnly that you will give up all idea of suicide." "I promise you solemnly I will." Papa Ravinet's eyes shone with delight; and he exclaimed joyously, "Done! I'll come up again to-morrow; for, to tell the truth, I am tired to death, and must go and lie down." But he told a fib; for he did not go back to his rooms.
She had turned as pale as death, and was staggering so, that Papa Ravinet's sister took her in her arms to support her. "Horrible," she murmured; "this is horrible!" Still she had not yet read all. The old man picked up the paper, and read from another article, below the lines which carried poison in every word, the following comments:
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