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It was the inspiration and the work of a moment to raise himself with an exaggerated effort and a purposed noise, and to take his departure with a tread heavy enough to force itself on the ears of the unknown person inside. But he did not go far. To what purpose should he, since it was vain to hope to overtake the Captain or Paul de Roustache?
"I thought we seemed lighter, somehow," said Dieppe, paying no heed to the driver's terrified shouts, but still urging on his horses. He showed at this moment something of a soldier's recognition that, if necessary, life must be sacrificed for victory: he had taken the same view when he left M. Guillaume in order to pursue Paul de Roustache.
"Oh, if you like but you risk being overheard. I 'm tired of the job." "The ground dips here. Come, we must search the hollow. You must earn your reward, M. de Roustache." The lady pressed Dieppe's arm. "I can't go now," she whispered. "I 'm willing to earn it, but I 'd like to see it." "What's that down there?" "You don't attend to my suggestion, M. Sévier."
Paul de Roustache bade the serving-maid bring him a bottle of wine, and passed an hour in consuming it very thoughtfully. Guillaume returned from his conversation with the innkeeper just as the last glass was poured out. To Paul's annoyance he snatched it up and drained it an act of familiarity that reached insolence.
For certainly he had not told all the truth to his dear friend, the Count of Fieramondi. Yet since no more was heard of Paul de Roustache, and the Countess's journey remained an unbroken secret, these questions of casuistry need not be raised. After all, is it for a man to ruin the tranquillity of a home for the selfish pleasure of a conscience quite at peace?
Give it a foot of depth in ordinary times. Let it be three or four now. Still he could get across. With one last look at the Captain, who advanced steadily, although very slowly, Paul de Roustache essayed the passage. The precious portfolio was in an inner pocket, the hardly less precious revolver he grasped in one hand; and both his hands he held half outstretched on either side of him.
She had thought the matter over, there in the solitude to which her Andrea's cruelty had condemned her: and, yes, she would take the oath in fact any number of oaths to hold no further communication whatever with Paul de Roustache. "Ah, your very offer is a reproach to me," said the Count, softly. "I told you that now I ask no oath, that your promise was enough, that "
That Paul de Roustache came to the rendezvous, where he had agreed to meet the Count, in the company and apparently in the service of M. Guillaume, who was not at all concerned with the Count but very much interested in the man who had borrowed his name, afforded tolerably conclusive evidence that Paul had been undeceived, and that if either party had been duped in regard to the meeting it was Captain Dieppe.
The Baroness von Englebaden's diamonds had gone the way and served the purposes to which family diamonds seem at some time or other to be predestined: and Paul was very hard up. The Countess must be very frightened, the Count was very proud. The situation was certainly worth fifty thousand francs to Paul de Roustache.
Do you know anything about him?" "I know he 's a gentleman, and a clever fellow," returned the Count. "And from time to time he makes some money, I believe." "Lucia's got some money," mused the Countess. "You really think we shall hear no more of Paul de Roustache?" asked Lucia. "I 'm sure of it; and I think M. Guillaume will let me alone too. Indeed there remains only one question."
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