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"Well, but," said Rose, "not from me. Edouard and I have no secrets." "Come, that's good," said Raynal. "Why, you are the very one he warned me against the most; said you were as curious as Mother Eve, and as sharp as her needle." "Then he is a little scurrilous traitor," cried Rose, turning very red.
The embezzlement from the Abbe Raynal was, it is true, committed by one country upon another, and therefore shews no defect in the laws of either. But it is nevertheless a breach of civil manners and literary justice; neither can it be any apology, that because the countries are at war, literature shall be entitled to depredation.
"Oh, yes, I am very happy," replied the poor fellow, his lip quivering. "Watch over all those poor women, comrade, and sometimes speak to them of me. It is foolish, but we like to be remembered." "Yes! but do not let us speak of that. Raynal, you and I were lieutenants together; do you remember saving my life in the Arno?" "Yes."
She was early introduced to the society of the cleverest men in Paris, with whom her father's house was a favorite resort; and before she was twelve years of age, such men as Raynal, Marmontel, and Grimm used to converse with her as though she were twenty, calling out her ready eloquence, inquiring into her studies, and recommending new books.
A soothing word or gentle excuse from the kind-hearted Princess were the only gleams of comfort that rendered the present state of things endurable. Just after Christmas arrived a vessel with reinforcements from home. Among them came a small body of Hospitaliers, with the novice Raynal at their head, now a full-blown knight, in dazzling scarlet and white, as Sir Reginald Ferrers.
Under threats of prosecution for theft and I know not what, he forced his son-in-law to disgorge that half-million which he had so pleasantly tucked away in the banking house of Raynal Frères, and I was indeed thankful that prudence had, on that memorable morning, suggested to me the advisability of dogging the Marquis's footsteps.
She had now battled for months against her own heart: first for her mother; then, in a far more terrible conflict for Raynal, for honor and purity; and of late she had been battling, still against her own heart, for delicacy, for etiquette, things very dear to her, but not so great, holy, and sustaining as honor and charity that were her very household gods: and so, just when the motives of resistance were lowered, the length of the resistance began to wear her out.
But Rose's quick ear had caught words, and she replied, all in tears, "My poor sister is blessing you, sir. We all bless you." "She does not understand my position," said Raynal.
I will not draw on my old commandant. I could not; but be sure I will catch him and her alone some day, and the bride shall be a widow in her honeymoon." "As you please," said Raynal, coolly. "That is all fair, as you have been wronged. I shall make her an honest wife, and then you may make her an honest widow. Edouard winced and groaned. "Oh! don't call her by such a name. There is some mystery.
And now that the honor and the danger no longer floated vaguely over four heads, but had fixed on one, a sudden silence and solemnity took the place of eager voices. It was first broken by Private Dard saying, with foolish triumph, "And I held the hat for you, colonel." "Ah, Raynal!" said General Raimbaut, sorrowfully, "it was not worth while to come from Egypt for this."
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