Belle Rose: A Romance of the Cloak and Sword — page 145: what you’re looking at

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THE DUC DE LUXEMBOURG. 133 crais threw aside his notched saber, and tranquilly took up the way to the general’s quarters. He reached it an hour ago, and only left it to go from the general’s apart- ments to prison.”’ ‘*Are you sure of it?”’ ‘‘I met him, and, having seen me, he made me a sign to approach.”’ : ‘* “My fate is sealed, Déroute,’ he said tome. ‘If Belle- Rose arrives during the night, tell him to try to see me. An hour after sunrise it will be too late.’’ Belle-Rose drew on his coat, buckled his belt, and picked up his hat. ‘‘You are going to join him, lieutenant?’’ said Déroute. ‘‘No, Iam not.”’ “But where are you going, then?’’ ‘To see the duke.’’ ‘*He will not receive you; there is a council to-night.”’ ‘“*T will force my entrance. ’ **My lieutenant, take care——’’ “Of what?”’ ‘You risk your lifo, = ‘Well! I shall lose my life or save his.’’ Belle-Rose, without listening any longer to Déroute, passed the door and rapidly took his course toward the general’s quarters. Déroute followed him from a distance. The first sentinels let him pass, his epaulettes and the dis- order of his costume causing him to be taken for an aid- de-camp charged with an order from the Prince de Condé. But at the entrance to the house tenanted by the general, a grenadier stopped him. ‘**No one is allowed to pass,’’ ha said to him. ‘‘Monsieur de Luxembourg expects me,’’ boldly replied Belle-Rose. ‘The word of order?’’ **T have it not.” ‘Then you will not enter.’”’ ‘**Parbleu! we will see about that.”’ And Belle-Rose, overthrowing the grenadier with an irresistible force, reached the corridor at a bound. A light was shining at the top of a stair-way. He climbs it, re- pulses two guards, opens a door in front of him, and ‘dis- appears before the sentinel even had time to cock his musket. The Duc de Luxembourg was seated in a large easy-chair ; in his hand he held dispatches, and upon a table in reach of him, maps and papers were to be seen scattered. At the noise made by Belle-Rose on entering (E(0) micooo 3