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The chaperon and the dressmaker put their heads together, looked at fashion plates, talked solemnly of Worth and his compeers, of the gowns that were being worn by Bernhardt, and Pierson, and Croisette, and other stars of the Parisian stage; and then Lady Kirkbank gave her orders, Lesbia listening and assenting.
Returning to the gate alone he had seen his opportunity, and given the note to Francis, probably with a small fee to secure its transmission. Croisette and I looked at one another, apprehending all this. "He will sleep at Cahors to-night," I said sullenly. The lad shook his head and answered in a low voice, "I am afraid not. His horses are fresh. I think he will push on. He always travels quickly.
I would have wished to go in and confer with Marie and Croisette; but the juncture had occurred so quickly, and it might be that time was as valuable as she said, and well, it was hard for me, a lad, to refuse her anything when she looked at me with appeal in her eyes. I did manage to stammer, "But I do not know Paris. I could not find my way, I am afraid, and it is night, Madame."
And Croisette was stooping forward, his hands stretched out in an attitude of supplication. "Nay, but M. le Vidame," the lad cried, as I stood, the door in my hand, "it were better to stab her at once than break her heart! Have pity on her! If you kill him, you kill her!" The Vidame was silent, seeming to glower on the boy. The priest sneered. "Hearts are soon mended especially women's," he said.
This sunken way is fenced by low walls so that one may not when walking on the terrace fall into it. Gil had spoken before his head had well risen to view, and this gave us a moment, just a moment. Croisette made a rush for the doorway into the house; but failed to gain it, and drew himself up behind a buttress of the tower, his finger on his lip.
You did me a good turn once," he answered, much to my surprise. He seemed to be in earnest now. "You do not remember it, young gentleman, but it was you and your brother here" he pointed to Croisette "did it! And by the Pope and the King of Spain I have not forgotten it!" "I have," I said. "What! You have forgotten spitting that fellow at Caylus ten days ago? CA! SA! You remember.
Consequently, when she had roamed about for an hour and finally gravitated towards the Croisette, the temptation came upon her to satisfy her longing for tea in some place where she could look upon the care-free world that flocked here to play.
Croisette cried, bursting suddenly into violent sobs. "Oh, Kit! Kit!" His late Majesty, Henry the Fourth, I remember than whom no braver man wore sword, who loved danger indeed for its own sake, and courted it as a mistress could never sleep on the night before an action. I have heard him say himself that it was so before the fight at Arques.
Croisette pulled horrible faces behind his back. We looked hotly at him; but could find nothing to say. "You grow red!" he went on, pleasantly the wretch! playing with us as a cat does with mice. "It offends your dignity, perhaps, that I bid Mademoiselle set you spinning? I now would spin at Mademoiselle's bidding, and think it happiness!" "We are not girls!"
A narrow window-ledge sixty feet above the pavement, and three bars to cling to! I cowered to my holdfasts, envying even Croisette. My legs dangled airily, and the black chasm of the street seemed to yawn for me. For a moment I turned sick. I recovered from that to feel desperate. I remembered that go forward we must, bars or no bars. We could not regain our old prison if we would.
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