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When he left the castle the next day, the young lady was informed that she was to be married off, and received the news with the greatest unconcern. She did not know her future husband, the Vicomte de Talizac, but thought she would be able to get along with him.
The new arrival is not unknown to our readers; it was he who, earlier in our tale, was known as the Vicomte de Talizac, and who to-day, by the death of the old Marquis, had been invested with all the titles of the Fongereues family. Ten years had elapsed since we last saw him, and though hardly forty, he seems an old man his figure is bent and his stern face covered with wrinkles.
The person addressed, a man about twenty-five years of age with classically formed features, turned hurriedly around; seeing the vicomte, he said in a cold voice: "I am at your service, sir." The vicomte walked toward the street and the man followed. On a deserted corner they both stopped, and the vicomte began: "Monsieur, first I must ask you to tell me your name; I am the Vicomte de Talizac."
The large hall was filled to the last seat, and the waiters ran here and there with dishes, when an elegant equipage drove up and immediately afterward the stentorian voice of the landlord cried: "Jean, the gentlemen who have ordered room No. 11 have arrived. Conduct them upstairs." The gentlemen were the Vicomte de Talizac, Arthur de Montferrand and Fernando de Velletri.
Fernando's attitude during the fight between Frederic and Montferrand has already informed us as to the courage of this man. Perhaps he was wise in not risking his life to defend Talizac, whom he estimated at his proper value. He was interested in the Fongereues family only as an emissary of that Society which at that time labored to strangle Liberalism at its birth.
But he had reckoned without his host; with a shove Pierre Labarre threw the audacious rascal to the ground, and the next minute the heavy old table lay between him and his enemies. Thereupon the old man took a pistol from the wall, and, cocking the trigger, cried: "Vicomte Talizac, we still have an old score to settle!
This, Monsieur de Talizac, is the sign that hung on the front of the inn kept by Simon, Marquis de Fongereues, and I defy you, his brother and his murderer, to repeat to me what you have already said in the face of this witness. Pray and entreat, if you will, if you dare I, the lacquey of your father, reply: Cain! you are stained with the blood of your brother begone!"
"Unfortunately," continued Montferrand, turning to Fanfaro, "I am mixed up in the affair myself. I let myself be persuaded by the Vicomte de Talizac " "I thought so," growled Fanfaro. "And his friend Velletri to accompany them here " "Velletri? The Italian spy? The tool of the Jesuits, who treacherously betrayed his own countrymen, the Carbonari?" asked Fanfaro, contemptuously.
What Rolla said further was drowned by the noise Talizac made as he threw himself against the door. It did not move an inch though; and before the vicomte could try again, Robeckal hurried up with a long knife in his hand. "What is the matter?" he angrily cried. "Your friend the vicomte forgot his purse and thinks he can get the girl on credit," mockingly replied Rolla.
She is looking at him earnestly. "She has been carried off, by a man named Talizac." The sick woman tried to repeat this name. "Tell me," continued Fanfar, "the life of this girl, who cares for you, who loves you, may depend on what you tell me. Have you ever seen any man by the name of Talizac here?
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