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"My first lesson! What do you mean?" "Call it a rehearsal if you like. All that the good woman told you," continued Tantaine, "you must look upon as true; nay, it is true, and when you believe this thoroughly, you are quite prepared for the fray, but until then you must remain quiescent. Remember this, you cannot impress others unless you firmly believe yourself.
"Give me six months, and I will add a million to the sum I have already offered." Tantaine did not appear impressed by the magnitude of this offer. "I think," remarked he, "that it will be better to close this interview, which, I confess, is becoming a little annoying. You agreed to accept the conditions. Are you still in that mind?" The Count bowed. He could not trust himself to speak.
He died of cold and hunger in a garret in the Hotel de Perou, as M. de Loupins will testify when necessary." The tone in which Tantaine spoke showed his intense earnestness, and with emphatic gestures he drove each successive idea into Paul's brain. "You will rid yourself of your former recollections as you do of an old coat, which you throw aside, and forget the very existence of.
I took a match, and said, 'Have a light, my noble swell? and hanged if he didn't give me ten centimes! My! ain't he ugly! short, shrivelled up, and knock-kneed, with a glass in his eye, and altogether precious like a monkey." Daddy Tantaine began to grow impatient with all this rigmarole. "Come, tell me what took place," said he angrily. "Precious little.
"There are scars now, then," muttered Tantaine, as he moved away from the house, "and that Master Catenac never said a word about them!" Two hours after Andre had left the Avenue de Matignon, one of Mascarin's most trusty emissaries was at his heels, who could watch his actions with the tenacity of a bloodhound.
Meanwhile Toto had called a waiter, and, flinging a ten-franc piece on the table, said haughtily: "Take your bill out of that." But Tantaine pushed the money back toward the lad, and, drawing another ten-franc piece from his pocket, gave it to the waiter. This unexpected act of generosity put the lad in the best possible humor.
"Is one of those for me?" asked he. Tantaine held the note towards the boy, who shuddered at the touch of the crisp paper and kissed the precious object in a paroxysm of pleasure. He then started from his seat, and regardless of the astonishment of the passers-by, executed a wild dance of triumph. All was soon settled.
"Do you mean that they are aware of the manner by which De Croisenois hopes to succeed?" "Look here?" answered Tantaine. "A general, on the eve of a battle, takes every precaution, but among his subordinates there are always fools, if not traitors. I had arranged a pretty little scene between Croisenois and Van Klopen, by which the Viscountess would be securely trapped.
Toto glanced at the note, then at the faces of the two men, but was evidently afraid to take the money. "Take the money," said Tantaine. "If your information is not worth the money, I will have it back from you; come into the office, where we shall not be disturbed." Tantaine took a chair, and glancing at Toto, who stood before him twirling his cap leisurely, said, "I heard you."
But although he paid for Florestan's dinner, all that he could extort from him was, that Sabine was terribly depressed. It was fully eight o'clock before Tantaine had got rid of Florestan, and hailing another cab, he ordered the driver to take him to the Grand Turk, in the Rue des Poissonniers.
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