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"Vorace," said he to him, "keep your master's glove between your teeth, watch it well; you will answer to me for it." Then turning to Gilbert, "Sir, will you please restore my glove to me? I should be infinitely obliged to you for it." "Ah! this is then the trial to which you will subject me?" answered Gilbert with a smile upon his lips. Stephane looked him in the face.
I imagine that you do not like him much; but after all, in keeping you under lock and key, he is only obeying orders." "And I tell you he is happy in making me suffer. The wicked man has done but one good action in his whole life, that was in saving you from the fury of Vorace.
His reverie was so profound that Gilbert approached within ten steps of him without being perceived; but suddenly rousing himself, he raised his head quickly, and stamped his foot imperiously. "Go away!" cried he, "go away, or I will set Vorace on you!" Vorace was the name of the bulldog that kept him company at night, and was crouching in the grass some paces distant.
In consideration of this good action, I no longer tell him what I think of him, but I think it none the less, and it seems to me very singular that you should ask me to love him." "Excuse me, I do not ask you to love him, but to believe that, at heart, he loves you." At these words he became so furious, that I hastened to change the subject. "Don't you sometimes regret Vorace?"
At the same moment Vorace, with a howl of rage, bounded up to leap at the throat of his despoiler. Gilbert sprang back, covering himself with his left arm, and the dog's jaws only grazed his shoulder. Yet when he touched the ground again, he held between his teeth a long strip of cloth, a scrap of linen, and a morsel of bloody flesh.
So I have easily persuaded him that I will never forgive you, as long as I live, for the death of my dog. Then again, he is growing hard of hearing, and sleeps like a top. Sometimes to disturb his sleep, I amuse myself by imitating the bark of Vorace but I have the trouble of my pains. The only sound which he never fails to hear, is the ringing of my father's bell.
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