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He will believe any ill of a woman, and anything that Captain Ferragant tells him. The fact that Monsieur de Merri is young and accomplished is enough. My husband has suspected me from the hour of our marriage. And besides that, people at Montoire have testified that they heard Monsieur de Merri boast of conquests. Whether that be true or not, it could not have been of me that he boasted.
There was, indeed, little to start with toward the task of finding her out, but, as Montoire could not be a large place, I need not despair. I would first, I thought, inquire about Monsieur de Merri and what ladies were of his acquaintance. If Monsieur de Merri himself was of Montoire, and had people living there, my presence would be a great risk.
Coming to Montoire, I inquired, and was informed that his only tie in this neighbourhood was his acquaintance with you. Therefore it must have been you he was coming to see, and his haste implied the urgency of his reasons, whatever they may have been. Thinking you might be depending upon his arrival, I resolved to tell you of his death."
I had put together his reticence about Monsieur de Merri, his having been away from Montoire just four and a half days, the direction of his journey, and his errand to be done immediately on returning. He must be the messenger who had carried the lady's note to Sablé, and he was now going to report its delivery and, perhaps, Monsieur de Merri's answer.
"I live at Montoire," said he, interestedly, as if glad to get into conversation. "There is a fine public square there, you will see." "But it is rather a long ride before dinner, isn't it?" "Only about five leagues. I shall ride there for dinner to-morrow, at all events." "You are returning home, then?" "Yes, Monsieur." "Have you been far away?"
At the inn I talked to everybody I could lay hold of, dragging in the name of Montoire, all to no purpose, until I began to think the inhabitants of Montoire must be the most stay-at-home people, and their town the most unvisited town, in the world.
"Yes, Monsieur." I resolved to be watchful and start at the same time. But lest he should have other company, or something should interfere, I decided not to lose the present opportunity. So I began forthwith: "I have met a gentleman who comes, I think, from Montoire, or at least is acquainted there, a Monsieur de Merri, of about my own age."
The young fellow looked at me with a sudden sharpness of curiosity, which took me back: but I did not change countenance, and he had repossessed himself by the time he replied: "There is a Monsieur de Merri, who is about as old as you, but he does not live at Montoire. He sometimes comes there."
In this manner, in the kitchen after supper, I asked a fat bourgeois whether the better place for me to break my next day's journey for dinner would be Troo or Montoire. "I know no better than you," he replied with a shrug. "Pardon, Monsieur; I think you will find the better inn at Montoire," put in a voice behind my shoulder.
Besides these, there were my purse; a quantity of gold, out of which I repaid myself the amount I had been robbed of; and the two keys, which I subsequently restored to the Chateau de Lavardin, whence they had come. We stayed the night at Bonneval. The next day the guardsmen started for Paris, and our party of three for Montoire.
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