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The carriage had driven off; Trudaine, after lingering long to look after it, had returned hastily to the house; the very dust of the whirling wheels had all dispersed; there was absolutely nothing to see; and yet there stood Monsieur Lomaque at the outer gate; idly, as if he was an independent man calmly, as if no such responsibilities as the calling of Madame Danville's coach, and the escorting of Madame Danville back to Lyons, could possibly rest on his shoulders.
"True!" exclaimed the general; "the man is right let him be heard." "There is no help for it," said Lomaque, looking at Trudaine; "leave it to me it is fittest that I should speak. I was present," he continued, in a louder voice, "at the trial of Citizen Trudaine and his sister. They were brought to the bar through the denunciation of Citizen Danville.
At the door he met Trudaine, who said to him, rather hastily, "You are going back to Lyons with Madame Danville, I suppose?" "This very day," answered Lomaque. "If you should hear of a convenient bachelor lodging, at Lyons, or near it," continued the other, dropping his voice and speaking more rapidly than before, "you would be doing me a favor if you would let me know about it."
After he had bowed to Rose with a certain gentleness in his manner, which contrasted strangely with his wrinkled, haggard face, he held out his hand to her brother "I did not take your hand when we sat together on the bench," he said; "may I take it now?" Trudaine met his advance courteously, but in silence. "You may alter your opinion of me one of these days."
Aha! we work hard in our office; we don't waste time in calling names we make discoveries. If Trudaine is guilty, your wife is implicated in his guilt. We know it; and we arrest her." "I resist the arrest," cried Danville. "I am the authority here. Who opposes me?" The impassible chief agent made no answer. Some new noise in the street struck his quick ear.
"Accept, then, I beg of you, the resignation which this letter contains, and with it the assurance of my sincere gratitude and respect. "To Citizen Clairfait, Silk-mercer, "Chalons-sur-Marne." After reading these lines, Lomaque turned round to Trudaine and attempted to speak; but the words would not come at command. He looked up at Rose, and tried to smile; but his lip only trembled.
If he conquers, I have only put off the date of your death and your sister's, and have laid my own neck under the axe. Those are your chances this is all I can do." He paused, and Trudaine again endeavored to speak such words as might show that he was not unworthy of the deadly risk which Lomaque was prepared to encounter.
"Minutes of evidence collected concerning Louis Trudaine, suspected, on the denunciation of Citizen Superintendent Danville, of hostility to the sacred cause of liberty, and of disaffection to the sovereignty of the people. On the first night he carries with him money on the second, papers. He returns without either. This man is a good patriot, who can be trusted to watch Trudaine's actions.
Trudaine returned to his sister, fearful lest his face should betray what had passed during the extraordinary interview between Lomaque and himself. But, whatever change there might be in his expression, Rose did not seem to notice it. She was still strangely inattentive to all outward things.
They parted for a little while at the cottage door. Rose retired to the upstairs room from which she had been summoned by her brother. Trudaine and Lomaque returned to wander again along the banks of the stream.
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