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The Marquis was the living image of his mother, except that her beautiful regular features became in his face bony and repulsive. "Well?" said the Vicomtesse, going up to the couch. "I am wounded," he answered. "The man escaped me." His wife frowned. "Really!" she said, "one might think that the Vicomte de Talizac was strong enough to conquer a lacquey!"
This young girl lived modestly and plainly; she was pure and innocent. The Vicomte de Talizac regarded her as his prey. He bribed a couple of scoundrels and had the poor child abducted. "Half crazed with horror and despairing of humanity, the victim sought peace and forgetfulness in suicide. Marquis, do you know of any infamy equal to this?"
The young man gave a whistle, upon which signal the friends who had followed him hurried up. When they were near by, Talizac's opponent said: "Vicomte, before I provoke a scene, I wish to lay the matter before my friends; have patience for a moment. Gentlemen," he said, turning to his companions, "this man insulted me. Shall I fight a duel with him? It is the Vicomte de Talizac."
I felt that Talizac was enough for us to hate." "Yes, dear, I see; and I, too, have something to tell, for, when after long months in the hospital at Dresden, I was permitted to leave it, I wandered, I know not where; but I reached a hut it was in February, 1805 I saw a light and knocked. There was no answer, and I opened the door and went in.
The vicomte's voice aroused him from his dreams. "Well, Arthur," said Talizac laughing, "have you no congratulation for me?" Arthur looked penetratingly at the vicomte, and in a low voice replied: "Vicomte, if I cannot discover any traces of the punishment you received yesterday on your cheeks, I hope to be able to pay up for what I have lost. For to-day you must excuse me."
"Because," said Simon, in solemn tones, "because the Vicomte de Talizac is my brother!" "Your brother! But who, then, are you?" "The son of the Marquis de Fongereues," and in a few words Simon explained to his wife the situation already known to our readers. "I reproach myself," concluded Simon, "for having so long concealed my name from you. I have not seen my father since I was a boy.
A report was in circulation that an infamous comedy had been enacted by this Fanfar and his sister in order to break off the marriage between Talizac and Mademoiselle de Salves, a money-making scheme, worthy of a street singer and a mountebank. The sick woman had disappeared. This intelligence drove Francine to despair.
He turned and called to his friends. "Gentlemen," he said, "this man has insulted me. Shall I fight him? He is the Vicomte de Talizac." One of the friends, who wore the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, replied: "You cannot fight with a Talizac!" The Vicomte uttered a cry of rage, but the other still held him firmly. "You see," he said, "we do not fight with people whom we do not respect.
And now let me tell you, if you don't hand over this money that the police will be at your heels." At the word police, Fernando went to the Vicomte. "Come," he said, "we had better not remain in this cut-throat place. You must give the matter up, that is all there is to be said." "No, I tell you, no!" Feeling in his pocket, Talizac drew out a handful of gold and flung it at the woman.
"After we returned to the hut, I asked you who the dead girl was, and then you pronounced the name of Talizac, and heard that a gentleman of France had conducted himself like a base coward " "But an honorable man said to me, 'Shall we repair the crime of another?
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