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Saying this with an air of sublime conceit, he took off his spectacles, and set to work wiping them industriously. "Well, I will wait," said the young advocate. "And, since that makes an end to my business here, I beg you will let me speak to you of another matter. M. de Boiscoran has charged me with a message to the Countess Claudieuse." "The deuce!"
You are perfectly aware, that, as society is with us, the same thing which disgraces a woman rather raises a man in the estimate of the world. And as to my being afraid of Count Claudieuse, it is well known that I am afraid of nobody.
"There," he went on to say, "there lived the Count and the Countess Claudieuse, he one of those noblemen of a past age who worshipped honor, and were devoted to duty; she one of those women who are the glory of their sex, and the perfect model of all domestic virtues. "Heaven had blessed their union, and given them two children, to whom they were tenderly attached.
"When I felt I was wounded," continued Count Claudieuse, "my first impulse was instinctively to rush forward to the place from which the gun seemed to have been fired at me. I had not proceeded three yards, when I felt the same pain once more in the shoulder and in the neck. This second wound was more serous than the first; for I lost my consciousness, my head began to swim and I fell."
If Count Claudieuse carries out his threat, it may be a condemnation." "It must be a condemnation, you mean. Well, you need not doubt. He will carry out his threat." And shaking his head with an air of desolation, he added, "And the most formidable part of it is this: I cannot blame him for doing it. The jealousy of husbands is often nothing more than self-love.
It is easy to make an experiment. WITNESS. Oh, certainly! P. Let it be done. Witness puts a cartridge into each barrel, and goes to the window to explode them. The sudden explosion is followed by the screams of several ladies. Upon the president's order, witness is taken out, and the examination of the accused is continued. P. What were your relations with Count Claudieuse?
Now I ask you, how could I, upon whom fortune has always smiled; I who am on the eve of marrying one whom I love passionately, how could I have set Valpinson on fire, and tried to murder Count Claudieuse?" M. Galpin had scarcely been able to disguise his impatience, when he saw the attorney take part in the affair. Seizing, therefore, the opportunity to interfere, he said,
But they were hardly in the passage when they were met by Mechinet, who came running up out of breath, and half mad with delight. "M. Daubigeon sends me to say you must come to him at once. Great news! Great news!" And immediately he told them in a few words what had happened in the morning, Trumence's statement, and the deposition of the maid of Countess Claudieuse.
Not even the name of the Countess Claudieuse had the slightest effect. At last, utterly out of patience, he said, "Let us go. The wretch is worse than a brute." "Was he any better," asked the doctor, "when he denounced M. de Boiscoran?" But the magistrate pretended not to hear; and, when they were about to leave the room, he said to the doctor, "You know that I expect your report, doctor?"
"Yes," he said, "all this is fully established." "For ourselves, we have another certainty, that Suky Wood, the servant of the false Sir Francis Burnett, has watched the mysterious lady; that she has seen her, and consequently would know her again." "True, that appears from the deposition of the girl's friend." "Consequently, if we discover Suky Wood, the Countess Claudieuse is unmasked."
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