Volume III Part 43 (2/2)
He then went out
”Now,” said Esther, ere by ourselves, ”I aence than yours In the na of those four letters, and why you usually omit them”
”I oht me that in ordinary cases they are unnecessary; but while I wasthe pyraht it well to obey”
”What do they mean?”
”They are the initial letters of the holy naences of the four quarters of the world”
”I may not tell you, but whoever deals with the oracle should know them”
”Ah! do not deceive me; I trust in you, and it would be worse than murder to abuse so si you, dearest Esther”
”But if you were to teach me the cabala, you would impart to me these holy names?”
”Certainly, but I cannot reveal them except to my successor If I violate this coe; and this condition is well calculated to insure secrecy, is it not?”
”It is, indeed Unhappy that I am, your successor will be, of course, Manon”
”No, Manon is not fitted intellectually for such knowledge as this”
”But you should fix on someone, for you are ive you the half of his i me”
”Esther! what is it that you have said? Do you think that to possess you would be a disagreeable condition in my eyes?”
After a happy day--I think IEsther, and went ho
Three or four days after, M d'O---- ca pyra her to double, to triple, and to quadruple the cabalistic coreat hurry, striking his breast in a sort of ecstasy We were surprised and alely excited, and rose toup to us ally
”But what is the matter, papa dear?” said Esther, ”you surprise me more than I can say”
”Sit down beside me, my dear children, and listen to your father and your best friend I have just received a letter fro me that the French a his master, that the Comte St Germain should be delivered over, and that the Dutch authorities have answered that His Most Christian Majesty's requests shall be carried out as soon as the person of the count can be secured
In consequence of this the police, knowing that the Co at the Etoile d'Orient, sent to arrest hiht, but the bird had flown The landlord declared that the count had posted off at nightfall, taking the way to Niuen He has been followed, but there are s him up
”It is not kno he can have discovered that a warrant existed against him, or how he continued to evade arrest”
”It is not knoent an M d'O----, laughing, ”but everyone guesses that M Calcoen, the sa's know that he would be wanted at et the key of the fields he would be arrested He is not so foolish as to despise a piece of advice like that The Dutch Government has expressed its sorrow to M d'Afri that his excellence did not demand the arrest of St Germain sooner, and the ambassador will not be astonished at this reply, as it is like iven on similar occasions
”The wisdoratulate , for ere on the point of giving him a hundred thousand florins on account, which he said he e the finest of the crown diamonds, and this we still retain But ill return it to him an demand, unless it is claimed by the ambassador I have never seen a finer stone