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We should alienate Selpdorf, who is useful, and who knows too much. As for the Duke, after such an affair he could never be eased of his suspicions. 'I don't ask to ease him, I mean to cure him, retorted Sagan, meaningly. 'I am certain Madame de Sagan has been silent. The speech of Mdlle. Selpdorf was the indignant outburst of a girl who thought her friend discourteously treated.
'No, perhaps not for a woman, said Selpdorf reflectively, 'but since there is no other he waited, then putting his forefinger under his chin, he raised her face and looked into it. 'Unless indeed you prefer someone Her eyes, which met his with the clear direct glance they had not inherited from himself, and her pale gravity dismayed him. 'Speak, my dear child.
'Yes, he acted under my orders, for the despatches were connected with the agreement I have within the last hour signed with England, and about which the first proposals were laid before me at midnight by the British Envoy during my visit to your Castle! 'What? shouted Sagan, as his house of cards fell about him. 'You lie, Gustave! And Germany? Selpdorf, we hold your promises!
'Are you also tired of our capital, of Révonde? 'I have had very little opportunity of growing tired of Révonde. I know nothing of it. 'But you would prefer Révonde, believe me. At this moment an attendant appeared with a card upon a salver. Selpdorf read the name with the faintest contraction of his brows.
At any rate I remember perfectly that I had the honour of presenting you to his Highness as the latest addition to our Frontier Cavalry. 'Your Excellency might easily have forgotten. From the nature of the case that could not be possible with me. Selpdorf listened with a little astonishment.
The man who speaks ten words has an advantage over the man who speaks a hundred. 'I thank your Excellency, he replied. 'There is, Selpdorf began again meditatively, as if permitting himself the luxury of a little frankness before a trusted adherent, 'an end to everything and a beginning. The line drawn between the new and the old is never defined; the two overlap.
Madame de Sagan had quarreled with her husband because she had insisted on helping Mademoiselle Selpdorf, who was about to be married to Baron von Elmur, in the choice of her trousseau. Some excitement was being caused in the Guards' barracks by the case of Captain Rallywood, whom Count Sagan accused of using his influence unduly with his brother-officers to forward the projects of Germany.
Selpdorf forgot that Sagan is a wild beast who can only be fed with blood! Counsellor paused. 'The highway robbery with violence to which I have been subjected is Sagan's bull-headed translation of Selpdorf's hint to detain me. Thus, according to their calculations, before I can get to Révonde the Duke will have been induced to lend himself to some other course.
'It must be that or nothing. Selpdorf did not look at her and he spoke almost brusquely. 'I know what it means. They will say he was false to his oath! Oh, father, is there no other way? I cannot let him go! Rallywood's face changed. Fate was crushing her two strange gifts into his hands, love and death at the same moment!
She laid her hand with a suspicion of caressing familiarity on his arm. 'Hush, then! Do you not know that it is inadmissible to mention the name of a masked lady until the clock strikes midnight? Captain Rallywood has been stationed near the Castle at Kofn Ford; we have therefore met occasionally, continued the lady, addressing herself to Mademoiselle Selpdorf.
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