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And then, advancing a step and addressing her, with unusual gravity, "Mademoiselle de Vrillac," he said, "you hear what this gentleman requires. Will you be pleased to confirm what I have said?" She did not answer, and in the intense silence which held the room in its freezing grasp a woman choked, another broke into weeping.
"Safe?" echoed a fourth and deeper voice. And out of the darkness beside them loomed a tall figure. The minister looked and leapt to his feet. Tignonville rose more slowly. The voice was Tavannes'. "And where am I to be safe?" he repeated slowly, a faint ring of saturnine amusement in his tone. "At Vrillac!" she cried. "In my house, Monsieur!" He was silent a moment. Then, "Your house, Madame?
Now that you are in your own land, now that you lift your hand against me, I will show you of what make I am. If blows will not tame you, I will try that will suit you less. Ay, you wince, Madame! You had done well had you thought twice before you threatened, and thrice before you took in hand to scare Tavannes with a parcel of clowns and fisherfolk. To- morrow, to Vrillac and your duty!
He seemed to to gloat on me," the girl stammered, with a flush of shame, "as if I were his! Oh, Monsieur, I wish we had not left our Poitou! Shall we ever see Vrillac again, and the fishers' huts about the port, and the sea beating blue against the long brown causeway?" He had listened darkly, almost sullenly; but at this, seeing the tears gather in her eyes, he forced a laugh.
You think a Catholic capable of the worst." "We have long thought so at Vrillac," she answered gravely. "That's over now, if people would only understand. This wedding has put an end to all that. But I'm harking back," he continued awkwardly; and he stopped. "Instead, let me take you home." "If you please. Carlat and the servants should be below."
When Mademoiselle de Vrillac came out of the hour-long swoon into which her lover's defection had cast her, the expectation of the worst was so strong upon her that she could not at once credit the respite which Madame Carlat hastened to announce.
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