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Updated: August 10, 2024
I passed quickly by in fact, as quickly as I could for it struck me at once that this man must be Lafleur, and I did not want him to give the duke a description of the unknown gentleman who was staying at Avranches. Yet, as I went, I had time to hear Marie's slow musical voice say: "I'm not coming at all to-day." I was very glad of it, and pursued my round of the town with a lighter heart.
Roland chose a young man called Couderc de Mazel-Rozade, who had assumed the name of Lafleur, as his lieutenant, and the rebel forces were not only quickly reorganised, but made complete by the addition of a hundred men raised by the new lieutenant, and soon gave a sign that they were again on the war-path by burning down the churches of Bousquet, Cassagnas, and Prunet.
André, and making a bonfire of the contents of the church; Joany disarming Genouillac; and Lafleur terrifying the villages of the Lozère almost to the gates of Mende.
Merely to see him would have been enough to tell you that Beaumarchais' Figaro, Moliere's Mascarille, Marivaux's Frontin, and Dancourt's Lafleur those great representatives of audacious swindling, of cunning driven to bay, of stratagem rising again from the ends of its broken wires were all quite second-rate by comparison with this giant of cleverness and meanness.
So I mused, sipping my coffee; and then I fell to wondering what the duchess would say on seeing me again so soon. Would she see me? She must, whether she liked it or not; I could not keep the diamonds all night. Perhaps she would like. "There you are again!" I said to myself sharply, and I roused myself from my meditations. As I looked up, I saw the man Lafleur opposite to me.
"Destiny," the little man seemed to say in the eloquent movement of his shoulders; while the growing light showed his beady eyes fixed, full and unfaltering, on me. Lafleur's prayers died away. The duke, still smiling, set his pistol against the wretch's head. "That's what you deserve," said he. And Lafleur, groveling, caught him by the knees. "Don't kill me! Don't kill me!" he implored.
There was Lulli in music; Beauchamp in ballets; Corneille and Racine in tragedy; Moliere in comedy; La Chamelle and La Beauval, actresses; and Baron, Lafleur, Toriliere, and Guerin, actors. Each of these persons was excellent in his way.
It is the same with the deputies and peers who discuss the laws, of ministers who share the toils of the king, of secretaries who work with the ministers, of soldiers on campaign, and indeed with the corporal of the police patrol, as the letter of Lafleur, in the Sentimental Journey, plainly shows.
The duke turned sharp to the left and led me to the bypath, and there, a couple of hundred yards ahead of us, we saw a cube of light that came from a dark lantern. The duke's face was dimly visible, and an amused smile played on his lips as he said softly: "Lafleur and Pierre! They think they've got the necklace!" Was this the meaning of Pierre's appearance in the role of my successor?
It is the same with the deputies and peers who discuss the laws, of ministers who share the toils of the king, of secretaries who work with the ministers, of soldiers on campaign, and indeed with the corporal of the police patrol, as the letter of Lafleur, in the Sentimental Journey, plainly shows.
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