Thus shall a great house be founded that
will bear our name. You see the importance of it?"
"Clearly."
"And how reasonable is my anxiety?"
"Assuredly."
"And you are in sympathy with me?"
"Pardieu! Why else did I go so near to killing your son?"
"True," he mused. Then suddenly he added, "Apropos, have you heard that
Eug?ne has become one of the leaders of these frondeur madmen?"
"Ah! Then he is quite recovered?"
"Unfortunately," he assented with a grimace, and thus our interview ended.
That day wore slowly to its close. I wandered hither and thither in the
ch?teau and the grounds, hungering throughout the long hours for a word
with Mademoiselle--a glimpse of her, at least.
But all day long she kept her chamber, the pretext being that she was beset
by a migraine. By accident I came upon her that evening, at last, in the
salon; yet my advent was the signal for her departure, and all the words
she had for me were:
"Still at Canaples, Monsieur? I thought you were to have left this
morning." She looked paler than her wont, and her eyes were somewhat red.
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