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You were scarcely out of the village before Monsieur de Sairmeuse, already ashamed of his injustice, said to me: 'I have been wrong, but I am an old man; it is hard for me to decide to make the first advance; you, Marquis, go and find Monsieur Lacheneur, and obtain his forgiveness." Marie-Anne, redder than a peony, and terribly embarrassed, lowered her eyes.
But the listeners could not distinguish a word. Soon the priest re-entered the apartment. "I hope, gentlemen," he said, with a dignity that could not fail to check any attempt at raillery, "that you will excuse this ridiculous scene. The cure of Sairmeuse, thank God! is not so poor as she says." Neither the duke nor Martial made any response.
But now, it had been Chanlouineau who, in his prison-cell, cried that he died for love of her. Now, it was Martial who avowed his willingness to sacrifice his ambition and his future for her sake. And the poor peasant condemned to death, and the son of the all-powerful Duc de Sairmeuse, had avowed their passion in almost the very same words.
His generous anger won the close attention of his auditors, and they were still listening to him with undiminished interest, when the sound of a horse's hoofs resounded upon the stones of the only street in Sairmeuse. A shudder traversed the crowd. The same fear stopped the beating of every heart. Who could say that this rider was not some English or Prussian officer?
Expenses for the third quarter of the year 18 ." Martial's brain reeled. A child! His wife had a child! He read on: "For services of two agents at Sairmeuse, . For expenses attending my own journey, . Divers gratuities, . Etc., etc." The total amounted to six thousand francs. The bill was signed "Chelteux."
"The Marquis de Sairmeuse is below, in the blue drawing-room; and he begs Mademoiselle to grant him a few moments' conversation." Had a thunder-bolt riven the earth at the feet of the murderess, she could not have been more terrified. "All must have been discovered!" this was her first thought. That alone would have brought Martial there.
In the broad open space extending from the front of the chateau to the parterre lay a huge pile of all kinds of clothing, linen, plate, and furniture. One might have supposed that the occupants of the chateau were moving. A half dozen men were running to and fro, and standing in the centre of the rubbish was the Duc de Sairmeuse, giving orders.
She broke the seal with the arms of the De Sairmeuse family inscribed upon it, and read: "My dear Marie-Anne Perhaps you have suspected who it is that has given an entirely new, and certainly surprising, direction to events. "Perhaps you have also understood the motives that guided him. In that case I am amply repaid for my efforts, for you cannot refuse me your friendship and your esteem.
"But," insisted Martial, "after what you have just seen and heard you can no longer suspect me of having cut the ropes which I carried to the baron." "No! I am convinced that you are innocent of that atrocious act." "You saw how I punished the man who dared to compromise the honor of the name of Sairmeuse. And this man is the father of the young girl whom I wedded to-day."
You cannot deceive a man of my age and of my experience. I divine your intentions you hate the Sairmeuse family more mortally than ever." "Yes, you; and if you pretend to forget it, it is only that they may forget it. These people have offended you too cruelly not to fear you; you understand this, and you are doing all in your power to reassure them.
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