Volume VI Part 45 (2/2)
Boisrenard, who shook hands with hireen and yellow ribbon worn on the day of the duel The Viscountess de Perce with a duke in the little Louis XVI boudoir
George whispered: ”An areenhouse, he noticed his wife seated beside Laroche-Mathieu, both almost hidden behind a clu: ”We have appointed ain public For we do not care a rap what people think”
Madareed that the Jesus of Karl Marcowitch was astounding, and they retraced their steps They had lost her husband
George inquired: ”And Laurine, is she still angry with me?”
”Yes, still so as much as ever She refuses to see you, and walks ahen you are spoken of”
He did not reply The sudden enirl vexed and oppressed hih a doorway, exclai: ”Ah! here you are Well, Pretty-boy, youto take away Clotilde to show her h the throng with that undulating snake-like motion women kno to adopt in a crowd Ale”
It was Madame Walter, ent on in a low tone: ”Oh! how ferociously cruel you are How you do et your companion away in order to be able to say a word to you
Listen, I , I must, or you don't knohat I will do Go into the conservatory You will find a door on the left leading into the garden Follow the path in front of it At the end of it you will find an arbor Wait for me there in ten minutes' time If you won't, I declare to you that I will create a scene here at once”
He replied loftily: ”Very well I will be at the spot you mention within ten minutes”
And they separated But Jacques Rival almost made hi his in a very excited manner He had no doubt coth Du Roy left him in the hands of Monsieur de Marelle, whom he had come across, and bolted He still had to take precautions not to be seen by his wife or Laroche-Mathieu He succeeded, for they seearden The cold air struck hiht: ”Confound it, I shall catch cold,” and tied his pocket-handkerchief round his neck Then he sloent along the walk, seeing his ith difficulty after coht of the reception-rooht and left leafless shrubs, the branches of which were quivering
Light filtered through their branches, co white in the middle of the path in front of him, and Mada voice; ”Ah here you are; you want to killof you, or I shall bolt at once”
She had seized him round the neck, and with her lips close to his, said: ”But what have I done to you? You are behaving towards me like a wretch
What have I done to you?”
He tried to repulse her ”You wound your hair round every one of ht about a rupture between my wife and myself”
She was surprised for aher head, said: ”Oh!
your ould not mind It was one of your mistresses who had made a scene over it”
”I have no er ever come to see me? Why do you refuse to come to dinner, even once a week, with ree that I no longer have a thought that is not for you; that I see you continually beforeafraid of uttering your name You cannot understand that, I know It seems to me that I am seized in some one's clutches, tied up in a sack, I don't knohat Your remembrance, alith s so as to no longer leaveall day on a chair thinking of you”
He looked at her with astonish frolicso woue project, however, arose in his mind He replied: ”My dear, love is not eternal We take and we leave one another But when it drags on, as between us two, it beco I will have no more of it That is the truth However, if you can be reasonable, and receive and treat me as a friend, I will come as I used to Do you feel capable of that?”
She placed her two bare ar in order to see you”
”Then it is agreed on,” said he; ”we are friends, and nothing reed on;” and then, holding out her lips to hi: ”No, weaway a couple of tears, and then, drawing from her bosom a bundle of papers tied with pink silk ribbon, offered it to Du Roy, saying: ”Here; it is your share of the profit in the Morocco affair I was so pleased to have gained it for you Here, take it”