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Pichon and sons of the Crois Rouse. Girodier, pharmacien premiere class, is

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a legend recorded in huge, ill
proportioned letters, which directs the attention of

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the stranger to the most prosperous looking
shop in the grand plus of La Croix

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Rousse, a well known suburb of
the beautiful city of Lyons, which has

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its share of the shabby gentility and
poor pretense common to the suburban commerce of

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great towns. Girodier is not only
pharmacien but proprieterre, though not by inheritance.

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His possession of one of the prettiest
and most prolific of the small vineyards

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in the beautiful suburb, and a
charming inconvenient house with low ceilings, little

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Putian bedrooms and a profusion of perciennes, jalousie and controvans, comes by purchase.

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This enviable littleterire was sold by the
nation when that terrible abstraction transacted the

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public bases of France, and it
was bought very cheaply by the strong minded

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father of the Girodier of the present, who was not disturbed by the evil

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reputation which the place had gained at
a time when the peasants of France,

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having been bullied into a renunciation of
religion eagerly cherished superstition. The Girodier of

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the present cherishes the particular superstition in
question affectionately. It reminds him of an

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uncommonly good bargain made in his favor, which is always a pleasant association of

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ideas, especially to a Frenchman,
still more especially to a Leonett. And

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it attracts strangers to his pharmacy and
leads to transactions in grand chartreuse and Creme

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de rouse, ensuing naturally on the
narration of the history of Pichon and Sons.

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Girodier is not of aristocratic principles and
sympathies. On the contrary, he

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has decided republican leanings and considers Le
Progres a masterpiece of journalistic literature. But

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as he says simply and strongly,
it is not because a man is a

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marquis that one is not to keep
faith with him. A bad action is

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not good because it harms a good
for nothing of a noble the more when

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that good for nothing is no longer
a noble but poor uer at the easy

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price of acquiescence in these sentiments.
The stranger here is one of the most

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authentic, best remembered, most popular
of the many traditions of the bad old

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times. Before General Buonaparte as Euroudet, who has no sympathy with any later

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designation of lacron Dame, calls the
Emperor whose statue one can perceive a speck

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in the distance from the threshold of
the pharmacy. The Marquis de Saintange,

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in the days of the triumph of
the Great Revolution, was fortunate enough to

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be out of France and wise enough
to remain away from that country, though

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he persisted long after the old regime
was as dead as the Ptolemies, and

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believing it merely suspended and the Revolution
a lamentable accident of vulgar complexion but happily

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temporary duration. The Marquis de Saintnant, who affected the Steele regions and was

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the politest of infidels and the most
refined of voluptuaries, got on indifferently in

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inappreciative foreign parts, but the members
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two of whom were guillotined, while
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refuge there in a convent of her
order got on exceedingly ill in France.

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If the sis demand Marquis had had
plenty of money to expend in such feeble

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imitations of his accustomed pleasures as were
to be had out of Paris, he

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would not have been much effected by
the fate of his relatives. But money

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became exceedingly scarce the Marquis had actually
beheld many of his peers reduced to the

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necessity of earning the despicable but indispensable
article. After many ludicrous fashions and the

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duration of this absurd upsetting of law, order, privilege and property began to

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assume unexpected and very unpleasant proportions.
The Chateau de Saintange, with its surrounding

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lands, was confiscated to the nation
during the third year of the emigration of

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the Marquis de Saintange, and the
greater part of the estate was purchased by

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a thrifty, industrious and rich avoca
named prosper Aliques, a widower with an

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only daughter. Prosper Aliks enjoyed the
esteem of the entire neighborhood. First he

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was rich. Secondly, he was
of a taciturn disposition and of a neutral

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tint in politics. He had done
well under the old regime, and he

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was doing well under the new.
Thank God or the Supreme Being, or

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the First Cause or the Goddess Reason
herself. For all, he would have

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invoked d'egon, Mola or Cali,
quite as readily as the Saints and the

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Madonna, who had gone so utterly
out of fashion of late. Nobody was

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afraid to speak out before Prosperoliqu's.
He was not a spy, and though

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a cold hearted man, except in
the instance of his only daughter, he

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never harmed anybody. Very likely it
was because he was the last person in

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the vicinity whom anybody would have suspected
of being applied to by the dispossessed family,

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that the son of the marquise brother, a young man of promise,

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of courage, of intellect, and
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those actually and traditionally imputed to the
family, sought the aid of the new

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possessor of the Chateau du Saintange,
which had changed its old title for that

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of the Maison Aliques. The father
of Monsieur Paul du Saintange had perished in

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the September massacres, his mother had
been guillotined at Leon, and he who

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had been saved by the interposition of
a young comrade, whose father had,

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in the wonderful rotations of the wheel
of fate, acquired authority in the place

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where he had once esteemed. The
notice of the nephew of the marquis,

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a crowning honor for his son had
passed through the common vicissitudes of that dreadful

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time, which would take a volume
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Paualda Saintange was a handsome young fellow, frank, high spirited, and

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of a brisk and happy temperament,
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he had undergone, was not permanently
changed. He had plenty of capacity for

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enjoyment in him still, and as
his position was very isolated and his mind

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had become enlightened on social and political
matters to an extent in which the men

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of his family would have discovered utter
degradation and the women diabolical possession, he

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would not have been very unhappy if
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have lived in his native country and
gained an honest livelihood. But he could

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not do that. He was too
thoroughly suspect, the antecedents of his family

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were too powerful against him. His
only chance would have been to have gone

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into the popular camp as an extreme
violent partisan, to have ouherited the revolutionary

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herons, and that Paul de Saintange
was too honest to do so. He

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was reduced to being thankful that he
had escaped with his life, and to

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watching for an opportunity of leaving France
and gaining some country where the reign of

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liberty, fraternity and equality was not
quite so oppressive. The long looked for

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opportunity at length offered itself, and
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the Marquis, that he must contrive
to reach Marseilles, whence he should

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be transported to Spain, in which
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By a certain named date, his
uncle's communication arrived safely, and the plan

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proposed seemed secure and eligible. One
only in two respects was it calculated to

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make Paul du Saintange thoughtful. The
first was that his uncle should take any

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interest in the matter of his safety. The second, what could be the

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nature of a certain deposit which the
marquis letter directed him to procure, if

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possible, from the Chateau de Saintange. The fact of this injunction explained in

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some measure the first of the two
difficulties. It was plain that, whatever

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were the contents of this packet which
he was to seek for, according to

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the indications marked on a ground plan
drawn by his uncle and enclosed in the

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letter, the Marquis wanted them and
could not procure them except by the agency

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of his nephew. That the Marquis
should venture to direct Paul du Saintange to

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put himself in communication with prosper Aleiques
would have been surprising to anyone acquainted only

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with the external and generally understood features
of the character of the new proprietor of

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the Chateau de Saintange. But a
few people knew prosper Eliks thoroughly, and

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the Marquis was one of the number. He was keen enough to know in

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theory that in the case of a
man with only one weakness, that is

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likely to be a very weak weakness
indeed, and to apply the theory to

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the Avoca, the beautiful pious,
an aristocratic mother of Paul de saintange,

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a lady to whose superiority the Marquis
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not hesitating to avow that she was
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had been very fond of and very
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and he held her memory in reverence
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or divine, and taught his daughter
the matchless worth of the friend she had

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lost. The Marquis knew this,
and though he had little sympathy with the

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sentiment, he believed he might use
it in the present instance to his own

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prophet was the event proved that he
was right. Private negotiations, with the

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manner of whose transaction we are not
concerned, passed between the Avoca and the

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Sie Devon. Marquis and the young
man, then leading a life in which

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Skulking had a large share in the
vicinity of Dijon, was instructed to present

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himself at the Maison Aliques under the
designation of Ari Glaire and in the character

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of an artist in house decoration.
The circumstances of his life in childhood and

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boyhood had led to his being almost
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and indeed all the people on the
Sie Devont visiting list of the chateau

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have been pretty nearly killed off in
the noble and patriotic ardor of the revolutionary

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times. The ancient Chateau d Saintange
was proudly placed near the summit of the

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Holy Hill, and had suffered terrible
depredations when the church at Fort Vierre was

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sacked and the shrine desecrated with that
ingenious impiety which is characteristic of the French,

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but it still retained somewhat of its
former heavy grandeur. The chateau was

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much too large for the needs,
tastes or ambition of its present owner,

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who was too wise, if even
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not to have sedulously resisted its promptings. The jealousy of the nation of brothers

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was easily excited, and departure from
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upon by domiciliary visits and the eager
imposition of fanciful finds that portion of the

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vast building occupied by prosper aliques and
the citoyenne berket. His daughter presented an

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appearance of well to do comfort and
modest ease, which contrasted with the grandiose

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proportions and the elaborate decorations of the
y corridors, huge flat staircases and lofty

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panel departments. The Avoca and his
daughter lived quietly in the old place,

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hoping, after a general fashion,
for better times, but not finding the

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present very bad. The father becoming
day by day more pleased with his bargain,

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the daughter growing fonder of the great
house and the noble bocage, of

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the scrappy little vineyards, struggling for
existence on the sunny hill side, and

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the place where the famous shrine had
been. They had done it much damage,

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They had parted its riches among them. The once ever opened doors were

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shut, and the worn flags were
untrodden. But nothing could degrade it,

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nothing could destroy what had been.
In the mind of Bertaliques, who was

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as devout as her father was,
unconcernedly unbelieving. Bert was wonderfully well educated

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for a French woman of that period, and surprisingly handsome for a French woman

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of any not too tall to offend
the taste of her compatriots, and not

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too short to be dignified and graceful
She had a symmetrical figure and a small,

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well poised head, whose profuse,
shining, silken, dark brown hair

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she wore, as nature intended,
in a shower of curls, never touched

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by the hand of the coiffure,
curls which clustered over her brow and fell

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far down on her shapely neck.
Her features were fine, the eyes very

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dark and the mouth very red,
the complexion clear and rather pale, and

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the style of the face and expression
lofty. When bert A Leeks was a

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child, people were accustomed to say
she was pretty and refined enough to belong

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to the aristocracy. Nobody would have
dared to say so. Now, prettiness

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and refinement, together with all the
other virtues, admitted to a place on

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the patriotic roll, having become national
property. Bert loved her father dearly.

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She was deeply impressed with the sense
of her supreme importance to him, and

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fully comprehended that he would be influenced
by and through her, when all other

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persuasion or argument would be unavailing.
When prosper Alix wished and intended to do

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anything rather mean or selfish, he
did it without letting Bert know. And

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when he wished to leave undone,
something which he knew his daughter would decide

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ought to be done. He carefully
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Nevertheless, the system did not prevent
the father and daughter being very good

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and even confidential friends. Prosper Alix
loved his daughter immeasurably and respected her more

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than he respected anyone in the world. With regard to her persevering religiousness,

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when such things were not only out
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well, he was very tolerant.
Of course, it was weak and an

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absurdity. But every woman, even
his beautiful incomparable Bert, was weak and

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absurd on some point or other.
And after all he had come to the

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conclusion that safest weakness with which a
woman can be afolot is that romantic and

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ridiculous feblesse called piety. So these
two lived a happy life together, their

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share of it being very secluded,
and were wonderfully little troubled by the turbulence

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with which society was making its tumultuous
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The communication announcing the project of the
Sie de von Marquis for the secure

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exportation of his nephew, and containing
the skillful appeal before mentioned, grievously disturbed

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the tranquility of Prosper, and was
precisely one of those incidents which he would

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especially have liked to conceal from his
daughter. But he could not do so.

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The appeal was too cleverly made,
and utter indifference to it, utter

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neglect of the letter, which naturally
suggested itself as the easiest means of getting

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rid of a difficulty, would have
involved an act of direct and uncompromising dishonesty,

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to which Prosper, though of sufficiently
elastic conscience within the limit of professional

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gains, could not contemplate. The
Chateau de Saintange was indeed his own lawful

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property, his, without prejudice to
the former owners, dispossessed by no act

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of his but the sied ofvonm Marquis, confiding in him to an extent which

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was quite astonishing, except on the
p l a theory which is so unflattering

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as to be seldom accepted. And
as to him, the existence of a

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certain packet hidden in the chateau,
acknowledging its value and urging the need of

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its safe transmission, this was not
his property. He hardly wished he had

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never learned its existence, but wishing
that was clearly of no use. Then

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he wished the nephew of the siat
of Arm might come soon and take himself

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in the hidden wealth away with all
possible speed. This latter was a more

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realizable desire, and prosper settled his
mind with it, communicated the interesting,

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decidedly dangerous secret to Bert, received
her worm sanction and transmitted to the Marquis

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by the appointed means. An assurance
that his wishes should be punctually carried out.

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The absence of an interdiction of his
visit before a certain date was to

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be the signal to Monsieur Paul de
Saintange that he was to proceed to act

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upon his uncle's instructions. He waited
the proper time, The reassuring silence was

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maintained unbroken, and he ultimately set
forth on his journey and accomplished it in

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safety. Preparations had been made at
the maisona Liiques for the reception of Monsieur

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Claire, and his supposed occupation had
been announced. The apartments were decorated in

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a heavy gloomy style, and those
of the Citoyenne in particular, they had

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been occupied by a lady who had
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but who was referred to now as
La Maire duci devant were much in

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need of renovation. The alcove,
for instance, was all that was least

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gay and most far from simple.
Thessyitoyenne would have all that changed. On

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the morning of the day of the
expected arrival, Bert said to her father,

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it would seem as if the Marquis
did not know the exact spot in

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which the packet is deposited. Monsieur
Paul's assumed character and plies the necessity for

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a search. Monsieur enri Clair arrived
at the Maisonelis, was fraternally received and

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made acquainted with the spear of his
operations. The young man had a good

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deal of both ability and taste in
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part was not difficult to play.
Some days were judiciously allowed to pass before

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the real object of the masquerade was
pursued, and during that time cordial relations

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established themselves between the Avocas and his
guest. The young man was handsome,

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elegant, engaging with all the external
advantages and devoid of the vice's errors,

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and hopelessly infatuated unscrupulousness of his class. Yet naturally quick intelligence and some real

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knowledge and comprehension of life had been
knocked in to him by the hard hitting

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blows of faith. His face was
like his mother's prosper Aliqu's thought, and

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his mind and taste were of the
very pattern which, in theory bait proved.

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Baert a very unconventional French girl,
who, though the new era of

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purity, love for jee and disinterestedness, ought to do away with marriage by

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Barter as one of its most notable
reforms, and had been disenchanted by discovering

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that the abolition of marriage altogether suited
the taste of the incorruptible republic better might

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like might even love this young man. She saw so few men, and

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had no fancy for patriots. She
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she did chance to love him.
This would be a nice state of affairs.

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This would be a pleasant consequence of
the confiding request of the sie Devon.

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Prosper wished with all his heart for
the arrival of the concerted signal which

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should tell anreclare that he might fulfill
the purpose of his sojourn at the Maison

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Narlik's, and set forth for Marseilles. But the signal did not come,

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and the days long, beautiful,
sunny, soothing summer days went on.

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The painting of the panels of the
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purpose, progressed slowly, and Monsier
pal de Saintange, guided by the ground

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plan and aided by Bert, had
discovered the spot in which the jewels of

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Price, almost the last remnants of
the princely wealth of the Saintange, had

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been hidden by the Fame de Chambre, who had perished with her mistress,

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having confided a general statement of the
fact to a priest for transmission to the

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Marquis, this spot had been ingeniously
chosen. The sleeping apartment of the late

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Marquis was extensive, lofty, and
provided with an alcove of sufficiently large dimensions

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to have formed in itself a handsome
room. This space, containing a splendid

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but gloomy bed on an estrade and
hung with rich faded brocade, was divided

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from the general extent of the apartment
by a low railing of black oak.

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Elaborately carved opening in the center,
and with a flat, wide bar along

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the top covered with crimson velvet.
The curtains were contrived to hang from the

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ceiling, and when let down inside
the screen of railing, they matched the

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draperies which closed before the great stone
balcony at the opposite end of the room.

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Since the Avocas daughter had occupied this
palatial chamber, the curtains of the

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alcove had never been drawn, and
she had substituted for them a high folding

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screen of black and gold Japanese pattern, also a relic of the grand old

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times, which stood about six feet
on the outside of the rails that shut

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in her bed. The floor was
of shining oak, testifying to the conscientious

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and successful labors of successive generations of
Routeur. And on the spot where the

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railing of the alcove opened by a
pretty quaint device, sundering the entwined arms

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of a pair of very chubby cherubs, a square space in the floor was

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also richly carved. The seekers soon
reached the end of their search. A

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little effort removed the square of carved
oak, and underneath they found a casket,

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evidently of old workmanship, richly wrought
in silver, much tarnish, but

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quite intact. It was agreed that
this precious deposit should be replaced and the

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car square laid down over it until
the signal for his departure should reach Paul.

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The little baggage, which under any
circumstances he could have ventured to allow

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himself in the dangerous journey he was
to undertake, must be reduced so as

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to admit of his carrying the casket
without exciting suspicion. The finding of the

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hidden treasure was not the first joint
discovery made by the daughter of the Avocaque

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and the son of the sie Divont. The cogitations of prosper Eleakus were very

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wise, very reasonable, but they
were a little tardy before he admitted the

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possibility of mischief. The mischief was
done. Each had found out that the

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love of the other was indispensable to
the happiness of life, and they had

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exchanged confidences, assurances, protestations,
and promises as freely, as fervently,

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and as hopefully as if no such
thing as a republic, one and indivisible,

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with a keen scent and an unappeasable
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They forgot all about liberty, fraternity, and equality. These egotistical,

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narrow minded young people. They also
forgot the care characteristic alternative to those unparalleled

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blessings death. But Prosperolix did not
forget any of these things, and his

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consternation, his prevision of suffering for
his beloved daughter were terrible when she told

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him, with a simple, noble
frankness which the grand down of the dead

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and gone time of great ladies had
rarely had a chance of exhibiting, that

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she loved Monsieur Paul de Saintanche and
intended to marry him when the better time

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should come. Perhaps she meant when
that alternative of death should be struck off

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the sacred formula. Of course,
she meant to marry him with the sanction

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of her father, which she made
no doubt she should receive. Prosperolyix was

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in pitiable perplexity. He could not
bear to terrify his daughter by a full

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explanation of the danger she was incurring. He could not bear to delude her

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with false hope. If this young
man could be got away at once safely,

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there was not much likelihood that he
would ac never be able to return

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to France, would bert kind for
him, or would she forget him and

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make a rational, sensible, rich
republican marriage which would not imperil either her

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reputation for pure patriotism or her father's. The latter would be the very best

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thing that could possibly happen, and
therefore it was decidedly unwise to calculate upon

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it. But after all, it
was possible, and prosper had not the

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courage in such a strait to resist
the hopeful promptings of a possibility. How

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Ardently, he regretted that he had
complied with the prayer of the Sie Devon.

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When would the signal from Monsieur Paul's
departure come. Prospero Leiks had made

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many sacrifices, had exercised much self
control for his daughter's sake, But he

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had never sustained a more severe trial
than this, never suffered more than he

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did now under the strong necessity for
hiding from her, his absolute conviction of

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the impossibility of a happy result for
this attachment, in that future to which

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the lovers looked so fearlessly. He
could not even make his anxiety an apprehension

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known to Paul de Seinage, for
he did not believe the young men had

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sufficient strength of will to conceal anything
so important from the keen and determined observation

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of Bert. The expected signal was
not given, and the lovers were incautious.

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The seclusion of the Maison Aliqus had
all the danger as well as all

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the delight of solitude, and Paul
dropped his disguise too much and too often.

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The servants, few in number,
were of the truest patriotic principles,

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and to some of them, the
denunciation of the citoyenne, whom they condescended

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to serve because the sacred revolution had
not yet made them as rich as he

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would have been, a delightful duty, a sweet smelling sacrifice to be laid

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on the altar of the country.
They heard certain names and places mentioned.

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They perceived many things which led them
to believe that Ahri Clair was not an

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industrial artist and pure patriot worthy of
respect, but a wretched sie divant,

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resorting to the dignity of labor to
make up for the righteous destruction of every

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other kind of dignity. One day, a gardener of less stoical virtue than

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his fellows gave Prosperoliks a warning that
the presence of a sie divont upon his

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premises was suspected, and that he
might be certain a domiciliary visit attended with

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dangerous results to himself, would soon
take place. Of course, the Avocad

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did not commit himself by any avowal
to this lukewarm patriot, but he casually

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mentioned that anri Glair was about to
take his leave. What was to be

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done. He must not leave the
neighborhood without receiving the instructions he was awaiting.

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But he must leave the house and
be supposed to have gone quite away

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without any delay or hesitation. Prosper
explained the facts to Barton, her lover,

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and insisted on the necessity for an
instant parting. Then the courage and

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the readiness of the girl told there
was no crime and very little trembling.

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She was strong and helpful. You
must go to Pichon's father, she said,

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and remain there until the signal is
given. Pichamp is a master mason,

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Paul, she continued, turning to
her lover, and his wife was

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my nurse. They are avaricious people, but they are fond of me in

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their way, and they will shelter
you faithfully. Enough when they know that

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my father will pay them handsomely.
You must go at once, unseen by

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the servants they are at supper.
Fetch your valise and bring it to my

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room. We will put the casket
in it, and such of your things

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as you must take out to make
room for it. We can hide under

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the plank. My father will go
with you to Pichon's, and we will

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communicate with you there as soon as
it is safe. Paul followed her to

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the large, gloomy room where the
train, and they took the casket from

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its hiding place. It was heavy, though not large, and an awkward

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thing to pack away among linen in
a small valise. They managed it,

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however, and the brief preparation completed. The moment of parting arrived firmly and

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eloquently, though in haste. There
to shirt Paul of her changeless love and

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faith, and promised him to wait
for him for any length of time in

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France if better days should be slow
of coming, or to join him in

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some foreign land if they were never
to come. Her father was present,

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full of compassion and misgiving. At
length he said, come, Paul,

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you must leave her. Every moment
is of importance. The young man and

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his betrothed were standing on the spot
whence they had taken the casket. The

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carved rail with the heavy curtains might
have been the outer sanctuary of an altar,

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and they bride and bridegroom before it
with earnest, loving faces and cloud

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hands. Farewell, Paul, said
Berth. Promise me once more, in

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this the moment of our parting,
that you will come to me again if

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you are alive, when the danger
is past, whether I am living or

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dead, Bert said Paul de Saint
Age, strongly moved by some sudden,

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inexplicable instinct, I will come to
you again in a few more minutes.

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Prosperoliks and his guest, who carried
not without difficulty, the small but heavy

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leather valise, had disappeared in the
distance, and Bert was on her knees

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before the predieu of the sie de
von Marquise. Her face turned towards the

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holy hill of Fourvieres. Pichamp Metre
and his sons Garson Masson were well to

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do people, rather morose, succeedingly
avaricious, and of taciturn dispositions, but

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they were not ill spoken of by
their neighbors. They had amassed a good

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deal of money in their time,
and were just then engaged on a very

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lucrative job. This was the construction
of several of the steep descents by means

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of stairs, straight and winding cut
in the face of the couteau by which

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pedestrians were enabled to descend into the
town. Pi jan Pere was approprieterire as

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well. His property was that which
is now in the possession of Girodier Pharmacien

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premier class, and which was destined
to attain a sinister celebrity. During his

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proprietorship. One of the straightest and
steepest of the stairways had been cut close

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to the teraire which the mason owned, and a massive wall destined to bound

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the high road at the foot of
the declivity was in course of construction.

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When prosper league Saint Paul de Saintanche
reached the abode of Pichon. The master

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mason, with his sons and workmen, had just completed their day's work and

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preparing to eat the supper served by
the wife and mother, a tall,

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gaunt woman who looked as if a
more liberal scale of housekeeping would have done

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her good. But on whose features
the stamp of that devouring and degrading avarice,

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which is the commonest vice of the
French peasantry, was set as plainly

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as on the hard faces of her
husband and her sons. The avocat explained

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his business and introduced his companion briefly, and awaited the reply of pichon Pere

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without any appearance of inquietude. You
don't run any risk, he said,

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At least you don't run any risk
which I cannot make it worth your while

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to incur. It is not the
first time you have received a temporary guest

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on my recommendation. You know nothing
about the citizen Glare, except that he

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is recommended to you by me.
I am responsible. You can, on

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occasion make me so. The citizen
may remain with you a short time.

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Can hardly remain long, say,
citizen. Is it agreed? I have

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no time to spare? It was
agreed, and prosperoleiks departed, leaving Monsieur

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Paul de Saint Age, convinced that
the right, indeed the only thing,

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had been done, and yet much
troubled and depressed. Pichampere was a short

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squat, powerfully built man, verging
on sixty, whose thick, dark grizzled

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hair, sturdy limbs, and hard
hands on which the muscles showed like cords,

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spoke of endurance and strength. He
was indeed noted in the neighborhood for

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those qualities. His sons resembled him
slightly, and each other closely, as

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was natural, for they were twins. They were heavy, lumpish fellows,

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and they made but an ungracious return
to the attempted civilities of the stranger,

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to whom the offer of their mother
to show him his room was a decided

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relief. As he rose to follow
the woman, Paul de Saintange lifted his

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small valise with difficulty from the floor
on which he had placed it on entering

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the house, and carried it out
of the room in both his arms.

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The brothers followed these movements with curiosity, and when the door closed behind their

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mother and the stranger, their eyes
met. Twenty four hours had passed away

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and nothing new had occurred at the
Maison Aliks. The servants had not expressed

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any curiosity respecting the departure of the
citizen Glare. No domiciliary visit had taken

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place, and Baert and her father
were discussing the propriety of Prosper's venturing on

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the pretext of an excursion in another
direction, a visit to the isolated and

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quiet dwelling of the master Mason.
No signal had yet arrived. It was

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agreed that after the lapse of another
day, if their tranquility remained undisturbed,

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Prosperolik should visit Paul de saintanche.
Bert, too, was silent and preoccupied,

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retired to her own room early,
and her father, who was uneasy

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and apprehensive, desperately anxious for the
promised communication from the Marquis, was relief

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by her absence. The moon was
high in the dark sky, and her

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beams were flung across the polished oak
floor of Berret's bedroom through the great window

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with a stone balcony. When the
girl, who had gone to sleep with

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her lover's name upon her lips in
prayer, awoke with a sudden start and

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sat up in her bed. An
unbearable dread was upon her, and yet

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she was unable to utter a cry. She was unable to make another movement.

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Had she heard a voice, No, No one had spoken, nor

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did she fancy that she heard any
sound. But within her, somewhere inside

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her heaving bosom, something said bert
and she listened and knew what it was.

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And it spoke and said, I
promised you that living or dead,

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I will come to you again.
And I have come to you, but

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not living. She was quite awake, even in the agony of her fear.

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She looked around and tried to move
her hands, to feel her dress

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and the bedclothes, and to fix
her eyes on some familiar object that she

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might satisfy herself before this racing and
beating, this whirling and yet icy chilliness

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of her blood should kill her outright. That she was really awake. I

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have come too, but not living. What an awful thing that voice speaking

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within her was. She tried to
raise her head and to look towards the

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place where the moonbeams marked bright lines
upon the polished floor, which lost themselves

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at the foot of the Japanese screen. She forced herself to this effort and

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lifted her eyes, wild and haggard
with fear, and there the moonbeams at

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his feet, the tall black screen
behind him, She saw Paul de saint

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Age. She saw him. She
looked at him quite steadily. She rose

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slowly with a mechanical movement, and
stood upright beside her bed, clasping her

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forehead with her hands and gazing at
him. He stood motionless in the dress

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he had worn when he took leave
of her, the light colored riding coat

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of the period, with a short
cape and a large white cravat tucked into

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the double breast. The white muslin
was flecked, and the front of the

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riding coat was deeply stained with blood. He looked at her, and she

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took a step forward another. Then, with a desperate effort, she dashed

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open the railing and flung herself on
her knees before him, with her arms

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outstretched as if to clasp him.
But he was no longer there. The

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moonbeams fell clear and cold upon the
polished floor and lost themselves where Baret lay

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at the foot of the screen,
her head upon the ground, and every

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sign of life gone from her.
Where's the citizen glare, asked prosper Leeks

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of the Sia Toyenne Pichon, entering
the house of the Master Mason abruptly with

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a stern and threatening countenance. I
have a message for him. I must

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see him. I know nothing about
him, replied the seatoyenne, without turning

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in his direction or relaxing her culinary
labors. He went away from here the

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next morning, and I did not
trouble myself to ask where that is his

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affair? He went away without letting
me know. Be careful, citoyenne.

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This is a serious matter, so
they tell me, said the woman with

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a grin which was not altogether free
from pain and fear. Were you a

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serious thing to have a suspect in
your house and palm him off on honest

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people? However, he went away
peacefully enough when he knew we had found

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him out, and that we had
no desire to go to prison, nor

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worse on his account or yours.
She was strangely insolent, this woman,

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and the listener felt his helplessness.
He had brought the young man there with

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such secrecy he had so carefully provided
for the success of concealment. Who carried

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his valise. Prosper Aliques asked her
suddenly, how should I know? She

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replied, But her hands lost their
steadiness, and she upset a stewpen.

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He carried it here, didn't he? And I suppose he carried it away

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again. Prosper Leeks looked at her
steadily. She shunned his gaze, but

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she showed no other sign of confusion. Then horror and disgust of the woman

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came over him. I must see
Pichamp, he said, Where is he?

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Where should he be? But at
the wall? He and the boys

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are working there as always. The
citizen can see them, but he will

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remember not to detain them, And
a little quarter of an hour the soup

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will be ready. The citizen did
see the master Mason and his sons,

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and after an interview of some duration, he left the place in a state

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of violent agitation and complete discomfiture.
The master Mason had addressed to him these

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words at parting. I assert that
the man went away of his own free

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will. But if you do not
keep very quiet, I shall deny that

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he came here at all. You
cannot prove he did, and I will

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denounce you for harboring a suspect and
sie devon under a false name. I

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know a du Saintnage. I see
him as well as you, Citizen Alix,

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and wishing Monsieur Paul a good journey. I hope you will consider about

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this matter. For truly, my
friend, I think you will sneeze in

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the sack before I shall. We
must bear it, Bert, my child,

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said prosper Alyix to his daughter many
weeks later, when the fever had

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left her and she was able to
talk with her father of the mysterious and

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frightful events which had occurred. We
are utterly helpless. There is no proof,

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only the word of these wretches against
mine, and certain destruction to me.

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If I speak, we will go
to Spain and tell the marquis all

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the truth and never return if you
would rather not. But for the rest

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we must bear it. Yes,
my father said Bert submissively. I know

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we must, but God need not, and I don't believe he will.

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The father and daughter left France unmolested
and bare it, bore it as well

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as she could. When better times
came, they returned Rosperolix, an old

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man and bare to stern, silent, handsome woman with whom no one associated

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any notions of love or marriage.
But long before their return, the traditions

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of the Crois Rouss were enriched by
circumstances which led to that before mentioned capital

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bargain made by the father of the
Girogier of the present. These circumstances were

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the violent death of Pichon and his
two sons, who were killed by the

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fall of a portion of the Great
Boundary Wall on the very day of its

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completion, and the discovery close to
its foundation at the extremity of Pichonp's terre,

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of the corpse of a young man
attired in a light colored riding coat

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who had been stabbed through the heart. Bert to Lis lived alone in the

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Chateau de Saintange under its restored name
until she was a very old woman.

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She lived long enough to see the
golden figure on the summit of the holy

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Hill, long enough to forget the
bad old times, but not long enough

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to forget or cease to mourn the
lover who had kept his promise and come

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back to her, the lover who
rested in the earth which once covered the

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bones of the martyrs, and who
kept a place for her by his side.

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She has filled that place for many
years. You may see it when

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you look down from the second gallery
of the bell tower at Fourvier, following

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the bend of the outstretched golden arm
of Notre Dame. The chateaus pulled down

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some years ago, and there is
no trace of its former existence among the

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vines. Good times and bad times, and again good times have come for

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the Croiroufs, for Leon and for
France since then. But the remembrance of

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the treachery of Pichon and Sons,
and of the retribution which at once exposed

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and punished their crime outlives all changes. And once every year, on a

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certain summer night, these ghostly figures
are seen by any who have courage and

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patience to watch for them, gliding
along by the foot of the boundary wall,

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two of them carrying a dangling corpse, and the other implements for mason's

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work, and a small leather valise. Girodierre Farmacien has never seen these ghostly

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figures, but he describes them with
much minuteness, and only the esprit fout

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of the Croix russ deny that the
ghosts of Pichon and Sons are not yet

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laid. Pichon and Sons of the
Crois Russe