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'My dear Monsieur Valmont, I am delighted to meet you, began the young man with more of effusiveness than I had ever noticed in an Englishman before, although his very next words supplied an explanation that did not occur to me until afterwards as somewhat far-fetched.
Oh, the incredible self-conceit of human nature! Here was this ruffian proclaiming the limitations of Valmont, who half an hour before had shaken his hand within the innermost circle of his order! Yet my heart warmed towards the wretch who had remembered me and my exploits. It now became my anxious and difficult task to lure Simard away from this café and its absinthe.
'Ah, Madame la Marquise de Bellairs, how jauntily you would scatter despair in that susceptible Court of Louis! 'Ah, Monsieur Eugène de Valmont, she cried, mimicking my tones, and imitating my manner with an exactitude that amazed me, 'you are once more my dear de Valmont of last night.
However, under the pseudonym of Guy de Valmont, he had sent some articles to the newspapers, and, later, with the approval and by the advice of Flaubert, he published, in the "Republique des Lettres," poems signed by his name.
'There is the treasure, Valmont, he cried, 'on condition that you do not molest the culprit. 'Or the accessory after the fact, gurgled Lady Alicia in smothered tones, with a hand clasping together her high-necked dress at the throat. 'We trust to your invention, Valmont, to deliver that necklace to uncle with a detective story that will thrill him to his very heart.
He sleeps in the Park Lane house every night, and goes up in the morning to an old curiosity shop in Tottenham Court Road, where he stays all day, returning with his bag of money in the evening. 'Why don't you arrest and question him? 'Well, Monsieur Valmont, there is just the same objection to his arrest as to that of Summertrees himself.
But that day did not bear thinking of. And, by and by, rattling through the bright, busy streets, in the vivifying sunshine, she began to feel happy again, as well as very young and eager. "This is the gate of my future, and I'm driving into it," she thought. The Hotel Valmont, which Mrs.
Here he untied the packet, and took from it a photograph, which he handed to the convict. 'Do you recognise that? 'Oh yes; that's Wyoming Ed as he appeared at the mine; as, indeed, he appeared when he was shot. The photograph Sanderson then handed to me. 'An article that I read about you in the paper, Monsieur Valmont, said you could impersonate anybody. Can you impersonate this young man?
I then sought out a most amiable and expert pyrotechnist, a capable workman of genius, who with his own hand makes those dramatic firework arrangements which you sometimes see in Paris. As Eugène Valmont, I had rendered a great service to this man, and he was not likely to have forgotten it.
Behold, I proclaim to you, the exquisite Valmont and the threadbare Ducharme are one and the same person. That is why they do not promenade together.
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