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Why, he continued in a burst of bitter passion, 'I have dared more, and endured more, with Toussac and a few of his kidney for comrades, than this Lasalle has done in all the childish cavalry charges that ever he undertook. As to service, all his Marshals put together have not rendered the Emperor as pressing a service as I have done.
'You shall not kill him! he cried angrily. 'Who are you, to set your wills up against mine? Let him go, Toussac! Take your thumb from his chin! I won't have it done, I tell you! Then, as he saw by the inflexible faces of his companions that blustering would not help him, he turned suddenly to tones of entreaty. 'See, now! I'll make you a promise! said he. 'Listen to me, Lucien!
I had little time given me to realise the extraordinary and humiliating position in which I found myself, for I was lifted up by my ankles, as if I were a fowl pulled off a perch, and jerked roughly down into the room, my back striking upon the stone floor with a thud which shook the breath from my body. 'Don't kill him yet, Toussac, said a soft voice. 'Let us make sure who he is first.
And to think that for your sake I have brought about the death of a man who was worth a hundred of you! Oh, I am rightly punished for an unwomanly act. Toussac has had his revenge. 'Enough! said the Emperor sternly. 'Constant, lead Mademoiselle Bernac into the next room. As to you, sir, I do not think that I can condemn any lady of my Court to take such a man as a husband.
Beside him stood Toussac, his face flushed with triumph, and his great arms folded across his chest. 'Well, my friends, said he, 'you are too late, you see. I have paid my debts after all. 'Surrender! cried Savary. 'Shoot away! Shoot away! he cried, drumming his hands upon his breast. 'You don't suppose I fear your miserable pellets, do you? Oh, you imagine you will take me alive!
As it turned out, however, I only had the one poor chicken-hearted creature, whom I handed over to the provost-marshal. 'And the other Toussac? 'Ah, he seems to have been a man of another breed. I could have asked nothing better than to have had him at my sword-point. But he has escaped.
The other ceased swinging his spindle legs and sat like a little brown image upon the edge of his box. There was a moist pattering of feet, a yellow streak shot through the doorway, and Toussac lashed at it as I have seen an English cricketer strike at a ball.
I felt the pressure of a thumb upon my chin and of fingers upon my throat, and my head was slowly forced round until the strain became unbearable. 'Quarter of an inch does it and no mark, said the thunderous voice. 'You can trust my old turn. 'Don't, Toussac; don't! said the same gentle voice which had spoken first.
I am as sure that Toussac is in the mill as if I had seen him with my own eyes. 'In that case there is not an instant to be lost, cried Savary. 'If he knows of a boat upon the coast he is as likely as not to slip away after dark and make his escape for England.
He shook his head at me with an air of sad wisdom, and I could read little comfort in his inhuman grey eyes. But it was the man called Toussac who alarmed me most. He was a colossus; bulky rather than tall, but misshapen from his excess of muscle.
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