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I should not be far off. Open the window, clap your hands, and I should come." Valef and Brigaud went away together, and D'Harmental went back to Bathilde, whom he found very uneasy. It was five o'clock in the afternoon, and Buvat had not returned it was the first time such a thing had ever happened.
For ten minutes Brigaud, D'Harmental, Pompadour, and Valef were lost in conjectures regarding this event, which, having been remarked by others as well as by them, had made a sensation among the crowd, but without being able to assign it to its proper cause.
I do not know," said Valef, "but I do know that we should be in a great difficulty without him. Some poor officer of fortune, without doubt, whom the peace has thrown abroad like so many others; but we will judge him by-and-by, by his works." "Well!" said the captain, becoming animated with the exercise he was taking, "where are our adversaries?"
Meanwhile Madame de Maine was introduced by an usher into the most retired part of the palace, and the seven ambassadors having thrown off caps and cloaks, she found herself surrounded by the Prince de Cellamare, Cardinal Polignac, the Marquis de Pompadour, the Comte de Laval, the Baron de Valef, the Chevalier d'Harmental, and Malezieux.
He showed his hopes destroyed, his investigations useless, and wound up by an appeal to Laval, Pompadour, and Valef, who answered that they were ready to follow the chevalier to the end of the earth, and to obey his orders.
"Thanks, madame," said D'Harmental, kissing her hand respectfully, "but you have already given me more than I deserve, and success itself would recompense me so highly, by placing your highness in your proper position, that I should have nothing left to desire." "And now, Valef, it is your turn," continued the duchess; "we kept you till the last, for you were the most important.
Is not that true, chevalier? Well, what the devil are you about now?" "Wait, abbe," answered D'Harmental; "I seem to recognize yes, by Heaven, it is he! You will not go away from this place, gentlemen!" "No, I answer for myself at least," said Pompadour. "Nor I," said Valef. "Nor I," said Malezieux. "Nor I," said the abbe. "Well, then, I will rejoin you in an instant."
It was agreed that the next day at two o'clock the duchess, Pompadour, Laval, Valef, Malezieux, and Brigaud, should meet at No. 15, Faubourg Saint Antoine, a house occupied by D'Avranches' mother, and that they should there await the event.
But as the visit might be renewed, and with a less fortunate result, as soon as they were gone I dismissed the workmen, buried the press, and had all the proofs taken to my own house." "And you did well, count," cried the Cardinal de Polignac. "But what are we to do now?" asked Madame de Maine. "Have the press taken to my house," said Pompadour. "Or mine," said Valef.
"Well," said the Abbe Brigaud, "although your conversation is somewhat frivolous, I hear it with pleasure, since it assures me that our affairs are not so bad as I thought." "On the contrary, the conspiracy is gone to the devil." "How so?" "I scarcely thought they would leave me time to bring you the news." "Were you nearly arrested then, Valef?" asked D'Harmental.
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