The Son Of Monte Cristo Part 18 (2/2)
”You have done well I wish my presence here to be like a thunderclap to him And then I expect that in his terror he will make the avohich will be my salvation”
”May I ask, sir, if your affairs have in any way ameliorated since my departure?”
”Aesture, ”no, quite the contrary Ruin is approaching with rapid strides, and in a few months I shall be lost!”
”But the favor of His Majesty--”
Fongereues laughed bitterly ”His Majesty cares little for h to displease his fair friend, the tide has turned”
”But can nothing be done?”
Fongereues shrugged his shoulders ”What is the use? I a that his faithful eres should be his best counsellors, and that it was his duty as well as his interest to rely on me But it was of no use
”They think they have paid us,” the Marquis continued, ”because they have thrown us, as food to the dogs, a few louis of indehts over these people who have assassinated their king and kissed the feet of an adventurer; but they are afraid, and talk of patience I told His Majesty, one day, of ereues never begs!' and the next day I received four thousand louis Confound the nonsense!”
Cyprien could not refrain from a smile Four thousand louis did not seem to him a trifle, nor nonsense
”But His Majesty is interested in your son”
”My son! These Puritans have as One would think, to hear theons of virtue As soon as the Vicomte marries and settles down--by the hat about Madeht, and have siues away, and that they must soon leave it to return to Paris”
”Four millions!” cried the Marquis ”And to think that this fortune e is not yet decided, then?”
”Not precisely; and the smallest incident may ruin my plans This Labarre must be made to speak, even if violence be necessary”
”He is an incorruptible old fellow, and these honest people are sometimes very hard to deal with”
The Marquis looked at him intently for a minute or two in silence, and then, with an indescribable se him, nevertheless!”
Cyprien smiled
”You know, beside,” continued the Marquis, ”that I arateful
Let this Labarre surrender this secret andIrene de Salves, and er than ever And you et you!”
”I hope, sir, that it may be soon in my power to render you a most important service”
”What reat interest in the preservation of the present _regime_?”
”I was not aware of that,” the Marquis said, with a slight elevation of the eyebrows It seemed to him that the opinions of Monsieur Cyprien were of little iovernment was not likely to benefit by his sympathy and protection
”The fact is, sir, your future and that of the monarchy are too nearly allied for ht”