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Then, straightening himself suddenly, with a proud, half scornful air, he looked the officer straight between the eyes. "You desire my sword, monsieur?" he inquired. The musketeer bowed respectfully. "Saint-Eustache, will you do me the favour to give it to me?"
"At the end of a half-hour his sister entered with Mademoiselle. They had been walking together on the terrace, and Mademoiselle de Marsac appeared very angry. 'Affairs are exactly as Monsieur de Saint-Eustache has represented them, said she to her brother. At that he swore a most villainous oath, and called for writing materials.
Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la Grande-Truanderie, and the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and whose transverse bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie.
Saint-Eustache would have interfered. He came at me as if resenting that shoulder-thrust of mine, and for a second I almost thought he would have committed the madness of striking me. "Take care, Saint-Eustache," I said very quietly, my eyes fixed on his.
"Never," replied our host in such a way that any but a fool must have understood that he desired nothing less than such a meeting. "A delightful fellow," murmured Saint-Eustache "a brilliant, dazzling personality." "You you are acquainted with him?" I asked. "Acquainted?" echoed that boastful liar. "We were as brothers." "How you interest me!
For that, Castelroux's information had prepared me, and I well understood in what capacity he was there. My surprise sprang rather from the fact that amongst the half-dozen gentlemen about him and evidently in attendance I beheld the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache. Now, knowing as I did, the Chevalier's treasonable leanings, there was ample cause for my astonishment at finding him in such company.
I cried in greeting, as he stepped into the room. "Are you still for Beaugency?" he asked sharply, throwing back his head. "Why, yes," I answered, wondering at this excitement. "Then you have seen nothing of Saint-Eustache and his men?" "Nothing." "Yet they must have passed this way not many hours ago."
I told him, I remember, indeed, which was very decided," she added, with an important and even solemn air, "that he would be a rebel yes, Madame, a rebel. I told him so at Saint-Eustache. But I see that your Majesty was right. I am very unfortunate! He had more ambition than love." Here a tear of pique escaped from her eyes, and rolled quickly down her cheek, as a pearl upon a rose.
Meanwhile, I regretted the incident, since it necessitated my remaining and encroaching for two days longer upon the Vicomte's hospitality. To all this, however, he made the reply that I expected, concluding with the remark that for the present at least it would seem as if the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache had been satisfied with creating this trouble betwixt myself and Marsac.
Nay, keep your hands still, Saint-Eustache. I don't fight catchpolls, and if you give me trouble my men are yonder." And I jerked my thumb over my shoulder. "And now to business. I am not minded to talk all day.
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