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"We had all foreseen it; and still, as you see, it has surprised us all, like a clap of thunder." The young lawyer beat his forehead, and cried, "The court has ordered the trial!" The marquis only bent his head, as if his voice, had failed him to answer the question. "It is still a great secret," said Dionysia; "and we only know it, thanks to the indiscretion of our kind, our devoted Mechinet.
The latter was, after all, a good enough fellow; his only besetting sin being unconquerable laziness, and his only crime in the eyes of the law perpetual vagrancy. He was attached to Mechinet, who upon former occasions, when he was in jail, had given him some tobacco, or a little money to buy a glass of wine.
For some time the fear of displeasing his grandchild, and of receiving a scolding, kept him at the place where she had told him to wait for her; but at last it was too much for him, and he said, "Upon my word, this is too much! I'll risk it." And, crossing the road which separates the Square from the houses, he entered the long, narrow passage in the house of the sisters Mechinet.
For she knew very well that nothing less would have emboldened Mechinet to show himself openly at their house. "Yes, indeed, madam!" replied the good man; "and upon M. Galpin's own order I bring you this letter from M. de Boiscoran."
"Or does he hold in reserve one of those unforeseen revelations, which at the last moment destroy the whole edifice of the prosecution, and cover the prosecuting attorney with ridicule?" Whenever these thoughts occurred to him, they made big drops of perspiration run down his temples; and then he treated his poor clerk Mechinet like a slave. And that was not all.
"You would cause me fearful pain, dear papa: but it would be all in vain; for I must resist your prayers, as I must resist your orders." "Inexorable!" cried the old gentleman. "She is immovable!" And suddenly changing his tone, he cried, "But, after all, I am master here." "Dear papa, pray!" "And since nothing can move you, I will speak to Mechinet, I will let Blangin know my will."
Her voice nearly failed her, and it was only with a great effort she could add, "For I come to ask you to do even more than that for me, oh! yes, much more." Mechinet had turned painfully pale. He broke in vehemently, "Not another word, madam: your hope already is an insult to me.
And he went back hurriedly, and was glad he had done so; for at the door of the hospital he came face to face against M. Galpin, who was just coming in, accompanied by his faithful clerk, Mechinet. "You came just in time, doctor," began the magistrate, with his usual solemnity. But, short and rapid as the doctor's walk had been, it had given him time to reflect, and to grow cool.
"We are going to Boiscoran," replied the magistrate. "What! Immediately?" "Yes: I wish to find M. de Boiscoran in bed. I am so anxious about it, that I shall do without my clerk." Capt. Parenteau bowed, and said, "Your clerk is here, sir: he was but just inquiring for you." Thereupon he called out as loud as he could, "Mechinet, Mechinet!"
"But I heard a great deal more," Mechinet said, "from the watchman who was on guard last night. He told me that when the trial was over, and it became known that Count Claudieuse was likely to die, the priest from Brechy came there, and asked to be allowed to offer him the last consolations of his church. The countess refused to let him come to the bedside of her husband.
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