Part 37 (1/2)
”Of what, then?”
”Of Climene, of course”
”Oh! The lady has ceased to interest me,” he lied
Leandre stood squarely in front of hiure handsomely dressed in these days, his hair well powdered, his stockings of silk
His face was pale, his large eyes looked larger than usual
”Ceased to interest you? Are you not to marry her?”
Andre-Louis expelled a cloud of smoke ”You cannot wish to be offensive
Yet you als”
”My God!” said Leandre, overcome, and he stared awhile Then he burst out afresh ”Are you quite heartless? Are you always Scaramouche?”
”What do you expectsurprise in his own turn, but faintly
”I do not expect you to let her go without a struggle”
”But she has gone already” Andre-Louis pulled at his pipe a moment, what tie
”And to what purpose struggle against the inevitable? Did you struggle when I took her from you?”
”She was not mine to be taken from me I but aspired, and you won the race But even had it been otherhere is the co in honour; this--this is hell”
His eood fellow, Leandre I alad I intervened to save you from your fate”
”Oh, you don't love her!” cried the other, passionately ”You never did
You don't knohat it means to love, or you'd not talk like this My God! if she had been my affianced wife and this had happened, I should have killed the man--killed him! Do you hear me? But you Oh, you, you come out here and smoke, and take the air, and talk of her as another s I wonder I didn't strike you for the word”
He tore his arrip, and looked almost as if he would strike him now
”You should have done it,” said Andre-Louis ”It's in your part”
With an io Andre-Louis arrested his departure
”A moment, my friend Test me by yourself Would youman's eyes blazed with passion ”Would I? Let her say that she will ht word--a slave in hell”
”It would never be hell to me where she hatever she had done I love her, man, I am not like you I love her, do you hear me?”