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Eaves, who knew everybody and had travelled everywhere, always used to declare that he was at Strasburg in the year 1830, when a certain Madame Rebecque made her appearance in the opera of the Dame Blanche, giving occasion to a furious row in the theatre there. Rawdon Crawley. She was, in fact, no better than a vagabond upon this earth.
But Monsieur de Garnache was totally insensible to his surroundings; his mind was very busy with the interview from which he had come, and the interview to which he was speeding. Once he permitted himself a digression, that he might point a moral for the benefit of his servant. "You see, Rebecque, what a plague it is to have to do with women.
He was stooping in the act, when a quick step rang behind him on the threshold, an angry voice harsh and metallic pronounced his name: "Rebecque!" The sword clattered from Rabecque's hand suddenly gone nerveless nerveless with sheer joy, all else forgotten in the perception that there, safe and sound, stood his beloved master.
After all, thought Monsieur de Condillac, they need go no farther than that doorway; they must have appreciated the situation by now; and he was confident they would have the sense to hold themselves in readiness for a rush in the moment of Garnache's mounting. But Garnache's next order shattered that last hope. "Rebecque," said he, without turning his head, "go and lock them in."
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