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Tears are in poor little Marie's eyes. Léon Roussel has seemed her own special property, and he has not been to her mother's house for a fortnight. "And if he had been at market to-day, he would have been content with me: poor Nicolas must be ill indeed to stay away from market. Ma foi! I have been dull alone.
Now that the Mystery of The Yellow Room has been cleared up, this is not the time to tell of Rouletabille's adventures in America. Knowing the young reporter as we do, we can understand with what acumen he had traced, step by step, the story of Mathilde Stangerson and Jean Roussel. At Philadelphia he had quickly informed himself as to Arthur William Rance.
"There was a French missionary brought a gang of them there. 'E was Père Roussel, and 'e ran away with 'em because Llewellyn's bloody crowd 'ere tried to steal 'em and sell 'em. They lived at Mangareva with 'im till he died a few years ago, and they never went back." Llewellyn lifted his dour eyes.
When the taxi turned again into the Rue de la Paix, she thought: "The car will not be waiting. It would be too lovely if it were." But there the car was, huge, glistening, unreal, incredible. And a chauffeur gloved and liveried in brown, to match the car, stood by its side, and the shopman was at the door, holding the Caprice of Roussel and the old handbag ready in his hand.
The 92d regiment, intimidated by the heavy fire which issued from it, and bewildered by a shower of balls, remained immoveable, neither daring to advance nor retreat, restrained by two opposite fears the dread of danger and the dread of shame and escaping neither; but general Belliard hastened to reanimate them by his words, and general Roussel by his example; and the wood was carried.
The approach of this enormous body of enemy troops was signalled by the arrival of General Exelmans who, as I have said, had briefly left his division to go almost unaccompanied to claim back from General Sébastiani his battery of artillery, which that General had so inappropriately despatched to join that of Roussel d'Urbal.
Many associations crowded his mind on this doorstep. Six years before, almost on this spot, a mere brier-patch then, he and Maximian Roussel had risen from the grassy earth and given the first two welcoming hand-grasps to the schoolmaster. And now, as one result, Claude, who did not know his letters then, was rising nay, had risen to greatness!
He was still a young man, only thirty-three; but he had worked excessively hard during the last dozen years. Since the age of fourteen, in fact, he had evangelized Languedoc. Shortly before Court left France for Switzerland, the preacher, Alexandre Roussel, was, in the year 1728, added to the number of martyrs. He was only twenty-six years of age.
The proprietress, an immense woman with a serious face, who was seated at the desk, inquired: "Who is he M. Roussel?" Jeanne replied in amazement: "Why, he is the lawyer at Goderville, who stops here every year." "That's very possible," said the big woman, "but I do not know him. Do you wish a room?" "Yes, madame." A boy took her satchel and led the way upstairs. She felt a pang at her heart.
Léon was gone, and she had flung away her only chance of telling him that Nicolas Marais never had been never could be more to her than a friend. "Oh what a fool I am! I may often see him, but how can I say this? And just now the way was open!" When Farmer Roussel stopped the wagon again, and came round to the back to help Marie out, he found her sobbing bitterly. "Here we are at St.
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