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Susini perhaps had the narrowest vein of reflection upon which to draw, and therefore fidgeted in his seat and muttered to himself, for his mental range was limited to Olmeta and the Chateau de Vasselot. Mademoiselle Brun was thinking of France of her great past and her dim, uncertain future.
For he knew every drift and current of feeling amid his turbulent flock, and the burning of the chateau of Vasselot seemed to serve no purpose, and to satisfy no revenge. There was some influence at work which the Abbe Susini did not understand. He understood well enough that a hundred grievances a hundred unsatisfied vengeances had suddenly been awakened by the events of the last months.
De Vasselot was looking through a pair of marine glasses across the hills to where the Perucca rock jutted out of the mountain side. "No; I hate it. But I am glad to come back," he said. "Monsieur will be welcomed by his people. It is a great power, the voice of the people." For the captain was a Republican. "It is the bleating of sheep, mon capitaine," returned de Vasselot, with a laugh.
The rides in the Bois de Boulogne are all bordered on either side by thick trees. If Lory de Vasselot pulled across, he would send the maddened Arab into the forest, where the first low branch must of a necessity batter in its rider's head. He rode on, gradually edging across to what in France is the wrong side of the road. "Hold on, madame; hold on," he said, in a quick low voice.
Intelligence betrays itself in listening more than in talking, and de Vasselot, with characteristic and an eminently national intuition, perceived that this girl from a covent school in the Rue du Cherche-Midi was not a person to whom to address drawing-room generalities, and those insults to the feminine comprehension which a bygone generation called compliments.
"Your life is not empty," said mademoiselle. The abbe turned and looked at her, his glittering eyes meeting her twinkling glance. "It is a priest's life," he said. "Come," he added, turning to the lawyer "come, Mr. the Notary, into your other room, and write me out a form of authority for the Count de Vasselot to sign. We have had enough of verbal agreements on this estate."
"You have forgotten everything, except the eyes of mademoiselle," the abbe muttered to himself as he went back to his place near the window. De Vasselot took up the packet of papers and began to untie the tape awkwardly with his one able hand. He was so slow that Mademoiselle Brun leant forward and assisted him. Denise bit her lip and pushed a chair towards him with her foot.
"Ah!" cried Lory, whose voice had a ring of excitement in it that always came when action was imminent. "But I cannot go at that pace. It is not only Jean who has but one leg. Your arm thank you. Now we can go." And he limped by the side of Susini through the dark alleys of St. Florent. The horse was waiting for them beneath an archway which de Vasselot remembered.
But he exchanged a quick glance with de Vasselot. "It will pass, baroness." "It is well to remember at such a moment that one is a sportswoman," suggested de Vasselot. "And that one has de Vasselot blood in one's veins, you mean. You may as well say it." She rose as she spoke, and looked from one to the other with a brave laugh. "Bring me that horse," she said.
"Yes," interrupted the other, breathlessly. "Straight on; the door is open." Half puzzled, Lory de Vasselot advanced towards the house alone; for the peasant was long in closing the door and readjusting chain and bolts. The shutters of the house were all closed, but the door, as he had said, was open.
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