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had retired. Although the moment was ill-timed for a visit, and though the young count, pre-occupied by his projects for the future, would have preferred meditating upon and ripening them, he was compelled, by the rules of etiquette, so severe in those days between well-bred people, to receive

meet you, count,"

el; "an hour sooner you would not have foun

ad. I set out an hour after you, and all along the road I heard of

gan to evince a certain degree of dissatisfaction, "to what cir

cquaintance, and perhaps. I might have reason to

hat I have met you somewhere; but my recollection serves

ather fugitive, for within the last six months, on three separate

uncertainty with regard to your person. Pray, therefore, have the goodness to fix my memory, by aid of more preci

certain frigate, which I was so fortunate as to be able to furnish you. I believe, even, that I accompanied you o

was obliged to leave the vessel wit

I received those thanks du

did that

rey stockings, a three-cornered hat, and curled hair. Only the captain appeared to you some thirty years older than the lieutenant, and it was not without motive that

ch you remained half concealed, I saw eyes sparkling similar to yours. I have not forgotten them; but this was only the time before the l

his hair so red that his powder could scarcely conceal its brilliant color-a scarlet coat, and tightly fitting pantaloons. I even had the honor of trying a bout wit

ertainly the same look, but i

disguised, and this is why he has thrown into the look a spark of his own light. We

For, with a man who can so perfectly disguise himself, th

ostume of the young nobility, when they visit each other as neighbors in the country. I am whatever you may please to consider

o me as they are to you, sir, I prefer the French lang

e day upon French ground, for the sun of France was that which gladdened my eyes; and although I have often seen more fertile

ng him ironically, "causes you to forget the motive

ads a fine sharp frigate, with tall masts and square yards, and you said to yourself: 'the captain of that ship must have some motive known only to

s I mis

a slight tone of irony, "my admiration of the perspicacity with which,

s, if you please, sir,

in captain in the cabin. You were the bearer of a letter from the Minister of Marine, ordering any officer, upon your requisition, and whose shi

is t

s great culprit, thus transported, had committed no ot

d Emanuel,

d Paul, playing with the weapons which the Count d'Auray

" said Emanuel, in a tone w

rned Paul, with aff

an assure yourself, if you will

etending to understand Emanuel's proposal in the sense which he meant to g

all tree. A goldfinch was rocking himself on the highest branch, singing forth his shrill and joyful notes. Paul

id he, "they are excellent weapons, a

of of it," replied Emanuel; "and I feel boun

ed to seek for amusements to which you landsmen are daily accustomed. Then we try our skill upon the sea-gulls, which hover over the crest of a wave; or the fish-hawks, which dart down upon the imprudent tenant of the deep that rise to its surfa

ssible, let us return to the

which deprived him of his reason. That having been brought up with you, he had inspired you with hatred-your sister with affection. He told me that, during the long years they passed together in the same solitude, they never perceived the i

e, or else I'll

too truly k

he is an austere woman, more severe than one of God's creatures ought to be, whose only advantage over others is, that of never having fallen)-your mother, I say, one night heard some stifled cries; she entered your sister's chamber, walked pale and silently up to her bed, and coldly snatched from her arms a child which had just been born, and l

th every detail of it!" excla

opening a pocket-book, "and which Lusignan, at the time he was about to be thrown amid robbers and assass

his hand towards the pocket-book, "and they shall be f

m her heart, and who poured her bitter tears into the bosom of the father of her child! Imprudent sister, who, not finding any protection from this tyranny in her brother, has compromised his

the terrible tendency of these papers, fulfil the mission which you have b

d at Lorient; but about ten or twel

chu

s,

r what

ray t

Paul believes

whom should I invoke during

his churc

y with the very high and very potent Baron de Lectoure. I immediately inquired for you, and was informe

the

you in Saint George's rooms, and was informed of your approaching departure. I arranged mine in consequence, in order that we might ar

ation? Let me hear it, for we

aced, sir, and with the disposition you have evinced of becoming allied to the Baron de Lectoure (who in your view, is the only person who can assist the realization of your ambitious projec

to me that this hund

ange for a contract for an annuity upon the young Hec

at all

brought up, thanks to his little fortune, far from the mother who has

ng an interest that you had come, I should not have experienced so much an

," said a servant,

one. Leave the room." rep

er, sir, who wis

to come

o speak to you

out of the way on m

sir,-you comprehend it is impor

uld not leave the castle before concluding the affair wh

, himself opening the door;

l hastily closed the door upon him, which