Part 43 (2/2)
He broke off to demand Andre-Louis' news of himself
”You did not treat me as a friend when you wrote to ave me no clue to your whereabouts; you represented yourself as on the verge of destitution and withheld from me the means to come to your assistance I have been troubled in ht have spared myself that You seem prosperous, assured Tell me of it”
Andre-Louis told him frankly all that there was to tell ”Do you know that you are an amazement to me?” said the deputy ”From the robe to the buskin, and now from the buskin to the sword! What will be the end of you, I wonder?”
”The gallows, probably”
”Pish!+ Be serious Why not the toga of the senator in senatorial France?
It ht be yours now if you had willed it so”
”The surest way to the gallows of all,” laughed Andre-Louis
At the moment Le Chapelier manifested impatience I wonder did the phrase cross his mind that day four years later when himself he rode in the death-cart to the Greve
”We are sixty-six Breton deputies in the assembly Should a vacancy occur, will you act as suppleant? A word froether with the influence of your na is done”
Andre-Louis laughed outright ”Do you know, Isaac, that I never meet you but you seek to thrust ift for politics You were born for politics”
”Ah, yes--Scarae Let that suffice Tell me, Isaac, what news of my old friend, La Tour d'Azyr?”
”He is here in Versailles, damn him--a thorn in the flesh of the assembly They've burnt his chateau at La Tour d'Azyr Unfortunately he wasn't in it at the tied his insolence
He dreams that when this philosophic aberration is at an end, there will be serfs to rebuild it for him”
”So there has been trouble in Brittany?” Andre-Louis had beco to Gavrillac
”An abundance of it, and elsewhere too Can you wonder? These delays at such a ti up in sht The peasants took their cue from the Parisians, and treated every castle as a Bastille Order is being restored, there as here, and they are quieter now”
”What of Gavrillac? Do you know?”
”I believe all to be well M de Kercadiou was not a Marquis de La Tour d'Azyr He was in sympathy with his people It is not likely that they would injure Gavrillac But don't you correspond with your Godfather?”
”In the circumstances--no What you tell me would make it now more difficult than ever, for he ht the torch that has set fire to soto his class
Ascertain for me that all is well, and let , when Andre-Louis was on the point of stepping into his cabriolet to return to Paris, he sought information on another matter
”Do you happen to know if M de La Tour d'Azyr has married?” he asked
”I don't; which really means that he hasn't One would have heard of it in the case of that exalted Privileged”