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"For my part, I preferred him in his poacher's garb. It suited his face and figure better." "He looked like a bandit. You could not have looked at him properly, mademoiselle." "Oh! yes, I did." The tone in which she pronounced these words, "Yes, I did," made me shudder; and somehow I again felt upon my lips the impress of the kiss she had given me at Roche-Mauprat.
Marcasse took off his hat to me and said in an impassive tone: "He is wrong . . . live at peace . . . pardon . . . peace . . . farewell!" They disappeared; and there ended my relations with Patience. I did not come in contact with him again until long afterward. I was fifteen when my grandfather died. At Roche-Mauprat his death caused no sorrow, but infinite consternation.
I found a horse that had belonged to my grandfather in the forest, and this animal carried us some miles from Roche-Mauprat, before it stumbled and threw us. Edmée was unhurt but my ankle was badly sprained.
One night, when wind and rain beat fiercely against the old walls of the castle and I sat at supper with my uncles, a horn was heard at the portcullis. I had been drinking heavily, and boasting that I would make a conquest of the first woman brought to Roche-Mauprat for I had been rallied on my modesty when a second blast of the horn announced that it was my Uncle Lawrence bringing in a prize.
Some three leagues from Roche-Mauprat, on your way to Fromental, you must have noticed an old tower standing by itself in the middle of the woods. It is famous for the tragic death of a prisoner about a century ago. The executioner, on his rounds, thought good to hang him without any further formality, merely to gratify an old Mauprat, his overlord.
The creditors were paid off, and the title-deeds of Roche-Mauprat passed into his hands. The little garrison kept by the Mauprats, made up of adventurers of the lowest type, had met the same fate as their masters. As I have already said, the garrison had long been reduced to a few individuals. Two or three of these were killed, others took to flight; one only was captured.
I went back into the garden, walked far into the park, and remained there all night. This conversation with Edmee had opened a new world to me. Hitherto I had not ceased to be the Roche-Mauprat man, nor had I ever contemplated that it was possible or desirable to cease to be so.
Tell her that I claim but one thing of her, the fulfilment of that promise of friendship which she made me at Roche-Mauprat." "In your eyes, then, that promise has a peculiar solemnity?" said the abbe. "If so, what grounds for distrusting it have you?"
They took the Trappist to Roche-Mauprat under a good escort, so that he might show them this secret chamber, which, in spite of his genius for exploring walls and timber-work, the old pole-cat hunter and mole-catcher Marcasse had never managed to reach.
Marcasse, meanwhile, had very nimbly climbed a ladder which served as an approach to the upper stories of the house, now that the staircase was broken. His dog followed him with marvellous skill. Soon they came down again, and we learned that a red light could be distinguished on the horizon in the direction of Roche-Mauprat.
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