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But the proprietor does not make these distinctions. After three weeks he would expel Michelangelo himself. The monsieur who was driven out he resisted. He employed blasphemies, maledictions; he smote my poor husband on the nose and in the stomach all to no purpose, for he is gone. I was overcome with grief, but what could I do?" "At least you know whither he went?" suggested Rufin.
And he called me a she-camel when I remonstrated." "In Italian it is a mere jest," Rufin assured her. "See, Madame, this is my card, which I beg you to give him. I am obliged to leave Paris to-morrow, but on my return I shall have the honor to call on him. And this is a five-franc piece!" The big coin seemed to work on the concierge like a powerful drug.
And yet you come to me a dying man and declare that such a creature can paint! Bah!" "Yes," said Rufin, "it is strange." It was clearly hopeless to try to extract any real information from Papa Musard; that veteran was fortified with prejudices.
"No," said Rufin, unconsciously speaking aloud "no; they must not kill him." "Ah, M'sieur!" It was a cry from the girl, whose composure had broken utterly at his words. "You are also an artist you know!" In a hysteria of supplication she flung herself forward and was on her knees at his feet.
I thought her proposal so curious a one that I had a great inclination to laugh, but finding it at the same time very advantageous I accepted frankly, and as if we had long been friends. On the first day I was tired, and did not sup with her till the day following. Madame Rufin had a husband who attended to the cooking, and a son, but neither of them came to these suppers.
"I am eager to serve you, Monsieur Rufin. When the date is fixed I will write you a permission. You three shall have an interview; it should be a memorable one." "We three?" Rufin waited for an explanation. "Exactly. You two great artists, Monsieur Rufin and Monsieur Giaconi, and also the murderer, Peter the Lucky."
The face, gnarled and tempestuously bearded, which had been perpetuated by a hundred laborious painters, glared from the pillow at Rufin with indignation and protest. Rufin suppressed an impulse to speak forcibly, for one has no more right to strip a man of his pose than of his shirt. He smiled at the angry invalid conciliatingly. "See how I forget myself!" he said apologetically.
He even caused a guarded paragraph to appear in certain papers, which spoke temperately of a genius in hiding, for whom fame was ripe whenever he should choose to claim it. But Paris at that moment was thrilled by a series of murders by apaches, and the notice passed unremarked. In the end, therefore, Rufin restored himself to his work, richer by a memory, poorer by a failure.
In the midst of them, their shabby civilian clothes contrasting abruptly with the uniforms of their guards, slouched four men, handcuffed and bareheaded. "It is they," whispered the official to Rufin, and half turned his head to ask a question of the huissier behind them. Three of them were lean young men, with hardy, debased, animal countenances.
There was some disorder of his dress which Rufin noted automatically, but it was not for some minutes that he perceived its cause the collar of his coat had been shorn away. The man sat under all those fascinated eyes impatiently; his tired and whimsical face was tense and drawn; he was plainly putting a strong constraint upon himself.
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