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There was no misunderstanding the meaning of the word "oblige," from the manner in which he pronounced it; and yet he was about to enforce the recommendation, when a fretting voice exclaimed on the stairs, "Chevassat! where are you, Chevassat?" "It's my wife," said the concierge. And, delighted to get away, he said to Papa Ravinet
Blanche Ravinet, of looks beautiful and occupation unknown; and two others. From the suddenness with which the conversation stopped, I judged they had been discussing "ze American." They were welcome to say what they liked barring the word "spion."
"This only is certain: he was so bitterly disappointed by his failure, that he sold his property, and left the country. For the next three years, he lived in Paris, more completely Maxime de Brevan than ever; and then he met Sarah Brandon." Papa Ravinet had been speaking now for nearly three hours, and he was beginning to feel exhausted.
If she tries to keep me from accepting the old man's assistance, she no doubt finds it to her advantage that I should do so." When she tried, after that, to examine as coolly as she could the probable consequences of her decision, she found enormous chances in her favor. If Papa Ravinet was sincere, she might be enabled to wait for Daniel; if he was not sincere, what did she risk?
It must be borne in mind, that the woman, for fear Henrietta might sell to Papa Ravinet what she had to sell, or for some other reason, had always painted the old man to her in colors by no means flattering. "What ought I to be afraid of?" asked Henrietta. The woman hesitated. At last she answered, "If I were to tell you, you would repeat it to him when he comes back." "No, I promise you."
Already, the night before, she had had some suspicions that he was not what he seemed to be; now she was quite sure. But who was he? She had nothing to go by to solve that riddle. This only she thought she saw clearly, that Sarah Brandon, Mrs. Brian, and M. Thomas Elgin, as well as M. de Brevan, had at some time or other come in personal contact with Papa Ravinet, and that he hated them mortally.
"The rascal!" said Papa Ravinet to himself, "the rascal!" But he had found out what he wanted to know. He was alone, and he knew he had no time to lose. Quickly he drew the teakettle from the fire; and, pulling out Miss Henrietta's two letters, he held the one that was addressed to M. Maxime de Brevan over the steam of the boiling water.
What could be the plan of Papa Ravinet? Did he expect to use these letters as weapons against her? or did he propose to send them to Count Ville-Handry in order to open his eyes? Daniel trembled at the idea; for his loyalty rebelled against such a vengeance; he felt as if he would have become a traitor.
Might they not, excited as they both were, have easily made a mistake?" "In less than a quarter of an hour after your arrival," Papa Ravinet had said to Daniel, "you shall have news." Less than a quarter of an hour! It seemed to Daniel as if he had been an eternity in this room.
When Papa Ravinet had appeared the evening before, with his carpet-bag in his hand, his hurry had been so extraordinary, and his excitement so great, that one might have doubted his sanity.
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