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Mon Dieu!" he struck his two hands together and snapped his teeth "when I think how foolish I was to be over-ridden, I could I could say more, Messer Baudichon" with a saturnine look "than I said yesterday!" "At any rate the bird is flown!" Baudichon replied, with sullen temper. "That is certain! And it was you who were set to catch him!" "But it was not I who scared him," Blondel rejoined.
These three, and behind them a dozen others men whom she had seen on high days robed in velvet, but who now wore, one and all, the ugly marks of that night's work looked on her with a strange benevolence. And Baudichon took her hand. "We do not come to harm you," he said. "On the contrary we come to thank you and yours. In the name of the city of Geneva, and of all those here with me " "Ay!
And every night we run a fresh risk, and every morning so far we thank God that our throats are still whole; and every day we strive to see you, and you are out, or engaged, or about to do it, or awaiting news! But this cannot go on for ever! Nor," puffing out his cheeks, "shall we always bear it!" "Messer Baudichon!"
He had eased his mind, and that for the moment was much; though he still ground his teeth, and, had Baudichon followed him, would have struck the Councillor without thought or hesitation. The pigs! The hogs! To press him with their wretched affairs: to press him at this moment when the grave yawned at his feet, and the coffin opened for him!
I suppose," with a grim look at Baudichon and the Inquisitor, who had exchanged meaning glances, "it is not alleged that I am in the plot with him? Or that he has confided to me the Grand Duke's plans?" Fabri laughed heartily at the notion, and the laugh, which was echoed by four-fifths of those at the table, cleared the air.
"But I do not know what that is," Blondel replied coolly. "I am afraid" he looked at his neighbour on either side "was I asleep?" "I fear so," said one, while the other smiled. They were his very good friends and allies. "Well, it is not like me. I can say that I am not often," with a keen look at Baudichon, "caught napping!
While other men, Baudichon and Petitot for instance, to say nothing of Fabri and Du Pin, reaped where they had not sown. That, by the way; for it had naught to do with the matter in hand the discovery of a scheme which would place the remedium within his grasp. He thought awhile of the young student. He might make a second attempt to coerce him.
Nor did the fact that the straw at that moment lay on the table beside him go for much. It did lie there. When he felt a little stronger and began to look about him, he found a note at his elbow. It was a small, common-looking letter, sealed with a B, that might signify Blondel or Basterga, or, for the matter of that, Baudichon.
And going out he closed the door behind him closed it jealously, that they might not hear. "I hope he has news will decide him," Petitot muttered lowering his voice involuntarily. "Messer Blondel is over-courageous for me!" He shook his head dismally. "He is very courageous," Fabri assented in the same undertone. "Perhaps even a little rash." Baudichon grunted. "Rash!" he repeated.
"No," Fabri said, when silence was made. "There is no provision for a change, unless a definite accusation be laid." "But Messer Baudichon may have one to make," Blondel said proudly. "In that case, let him speak." Baudichon breathed hard, and seemed to be on the point of pouring forth a torrent of words. But he said nothing.
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