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"Is that all?" he asked, quietly. "All for the present; and, if you do not think it enough, you are difficult to satisfy." "My dear abbe," said D'Harmental, "when we entered on this conspiracy, it was with almost equal chances of success and failure. Yesterday, our chances were ninety to a hundred; to-day they are only thirty; that is all."
"Why, my dear abbe, how you throw the helve after the hatchet!" "But, Valef, you have not told us how it happened," said D'Harmental. "My dear chevalier, imagine the most ridiculous thing in the world. I wish you had been there: we should have laughed fit to kill ourselves. It would have enraged that fellow Dubois." "What! was Dubois himself at the ambassador's?" "In person, abbe.
His absence from the Palais Royal, round which hovered all those who wished to take a place in the political sky, was interpreted as opposition; and one morning, as he had received the brevet which gave him a regiment, he received the decree which took it from him. D'Harmental had the ambition of his age. The only career open to a gentleman was that of arms.
D'Harmental supposed either that she had seen him at his window, and wished to punish him for his curiosity, or that some one had come in and interrupted her. He retired into his room, but so as not to lose sight of the window, and soon discovered that his last supposition was the true one.
"When I came up to you," replied D'Harmental, "they had not arrived, but I perceived at the end of the avenue a kind of hired carriage, which will serve as an excuse if they are late; and indeed," added the chevalier, pulling out a beautiful watch set with diamonds, "they are not behind time, for it is hardly half-past nine."
I have little ready money, but I have many diamonds and pearls; therefore want for nothing, I beg. All the world has not your disinterestedness, and there is devotion which must be bought." "Above all, be prudent," said the cardinal. "Do not be uneasy," replied D'Harmental, contemptuously.
At midnight the light in the opposite windows was extinguished; D'Harmental also went to his bed. The next day the Abbe Brigaud appeared at eight o'clock. He brought D'Harmental the second report of secret police. It was in these terms: "Three o'clock, A.M. "In consequence of the regular life which he led yesterday, the regent has given orders to be called at nine.
And Monsieur Boniface went out, far from suspecting the effect he had produced on his listeners. "It is some coup-d'état which is preparing," murmured D'Harmental. "I will go to Madame de Maine to warn her," said Valef. "And I to Pompadour for news," said Brigaud. "And I," said D'Harmental, "remain here; if I am wanted, abbe, you know where I am." "But if you were not at home, chevalier?" "Oh!
Almost by instinct D'Harmental profited by it, lunged within, and pierced the captain's chest, where the blade disappeared to the hilt. D'Harmental recovered to parry in return, but the precaution was needless; the captain stood still an instant, opened his eyes wildly, the sword dropped from his grasp, and pressing his two hands to the wound, he fell at full length on the floor.
Valef from the south, D'Harmental from the west, Laval from the east, I from the north, you from I do not know where; so that we confess that we are very curious to know what we are going to do here at Sceaux." "You have come to assist at a great solemnity, at the reception of a new knight of the order of the honey-bee."
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