Belle-Rose — page 279: what you’re looking at

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268 , A PONIARD THRUST. “Upon my word, I was going to commita folly. But, monsieur, one should forewarn people when one goes from Dover to Paris.’ ‘‘My first visit would have been for you if my presence here was not a secret,’’ replied Cornelius, taking the hand — of the count. | ‘‘Parbleu! Ido not know whether I ought to rejoice at this meeting,’’ said Monsieur de Pomereux, ‘‘otherwise I should have had the pleasure of a duel with a passer-by, if this passer-by had been some one other than you!” ‘‘Decidedly,’’ replied Cornelius, ‘‘inaction is contrary to your disposition; the first time that I saw you, you were about to get killed; the second, you absolutely wish to kill some one. Itisa malady. ‘“You jest, I believe! i whanid like to see you in my fix. The most abominable adventure has happened to me. I am furious over it. Still, if there was some one on whom to vent my: anger——’’ ‘‘Tam truly vexed not to Ba able to be that some one; but, upon my honor, if you were to kill me, it would singularly disturb my plans. ’’ | “Stay, ’’ continued the count, without paying any atten- tion to Cornelius’ reasoning, ‘‘I make you the judge of it; there is a lady of the name of d’ Albergotti——’’ ‘“You have related me that history, ”’ interrupted Cor- nelius. ; “To you? itis, my faith, true! I relate it to everybody, so I no longer know who knows it and who does not. Well, my dear Irishman, would you believe that she still continues to obstinately refuse me, ’ ‘*In truth?’’ ‘*She has a heart of stone! I am in despair, not so much for myself as for her; for, you know, a woman whom one loses is happiness cained. ” ‘*So that it is the love of one’s neighbor which inspires you to do what you do.’ ‘“‘T believe that the love of one’s neighbor ents some > figure in it; but that is a point which I seek to hide from myself. A good gentleman who loves WIAD being loved — —it is humiliating. ”’ : **Parbleu!’’ “However, on leaving the parlor, I did not conceal any of the dangers that she ran. She smiled at me and an- swered: ‘Let the will of God be done!’ ”’ ‘“‘Ah! yes,’’ said Cornelius, ‘‘the famous ‘dangers of which you spoke to us in England—a convent and a vail,”’ comicbooks.com —