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An embarrassing, painful silence followed, as it was inevitable that it would, the Baroness de Thaller's precipitate departure. Mlle. Cesarine had approached the mantel-piece. She was leaning her elbow upon it, her forehead on her hand, all palpitating and excited.
You should have seen them this morning! They were furious; they threatened to break every thing; they wanted M. de Thaller's blood. It was terrible. But M. de Thaller condescended to receive them; and they became at once as meek as lambs. It is perfectly simple. What do you suppose stockholders can do, no matter how exasperated they may be, when their manager tells them?
Lucienne's life from the time that she had left her with the poor gardeners at Louveciennes, without giving either her name or her address, the injury she had received by being run over by Mme. de Thaller's carriage; the long letter she had written from the hospital, begging for assistance; her visit to the house, and her meeting with the Baron de Thaller; the effort to induce her to emigrate to America; her arrest by means of false information, and her escape, thanks to the kind peace-officer; the attempt upon her as she was going home late one night; and, finally, her imprisonment after the Commune, among the petroleuses, and her release through the interference of the same honest friend.
"To M. de Thaller's first surprise had succeeded a feeling of evident irritation; but, the more haughty and brutal his manners, the cooler and the more self-possessed I became. "'And you are soliciting assistance? he said. "I drew myself up, and, looking at him straight in the eyes, "'I beg your pardon, I replied: 'it is a legitimate indemnity which I claim.
Two hundred francs! It is not much for three persons. I would never suggest that you should solicit M. de Thaller's protection; but it would be well, perhaps, to let him know that he has nothing to fear from you. Why shouldn't you do so when you take his fifteen thousand francs back to him?
He saw again, as in the glass, the ill-looking man listening, with an anxious look, to Mme. de Thaller's propositions, and afterwards sitting down to write. "That's it!" he exclaimed, a multitude of circumstances occurring to his mind, which had escaped him at the moment.
"As to you, Bernard," he said, "you will run to M. de Thaller's, and advise him of what's going on. Let him have funds ready; for all our depositors will want to draw out their money at once. You will then call at the printing-office: have my article on the Mutual Credit kept out, and insert in its place some financial news cut out from other papers.
Often, when the weather was fine, he took them out walking, leading them along the quays towards a part of the walls occupied by the battalion of their ward. Twice he took them to St. Onen, where the sharp-shooters were encamped to which Maxence belonged. Another day he wished to take them to visit M. de Thaller's house, of which he had charge.
We embezzle millions that we may hang diamonds to the ears of an adventuress; but we are careful, and we keep the receipted bills." "But, sir, I have already told you that I never lost sight of my husband." "Of course." "Every morning, precisely at nine o'clock, he left home to go to M. de Thaller's office." "The whole neighborhood knows that, madame." "At half-past five he came home."
"'You are the person who was knocked down by a carriage on the corner of the Boulevard and the Faubourg St. Martin? "'Yes sir. "'Do you know whose equipage that was? "'The Baronne de Thaller's, I was told. "He seemed a little surprised, but at once, "'Have you seen that lady, or caused her to be seen in your behalf? "'No. "'Have you heard from her in any manner? "'No.
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