"
"But I'm a poor man. "
He patted her hand. Clotilde pried Fritz from Lucy’s left leg where he
was clinging. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. She
gloried in it: he needed her. She would not let her move. “I suppose things have changed?” she said. They are used to me, they only cry because they
have become so used to being here. ‘A man
who is false, who steals papers, who has a plot to take another’s name, who lies
to the Mother Abbess and to me, and above all this—’ her voice near to breaking
‘—one who is French. He reached a silver cigar and cigarette box from the sideboard
and put it before his father-in-law, and for a time the preliminaries of smoking
occupied them both. . ’
He slid slowly down and collapsed to the stone floor, fainting dead away. If only sometimes he would grow angry at her, impatient! But his tender
courtesy was unfailing; and under this would be the abiding bitterness of having
mistaken gratitude for love.
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