Belle Rose: A Romance of the Cloak and Sword — page 284: 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 [ 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 should like to see you in my fix. The most abominable adventure has happened to me. I am furious overit. Still, if there was some one on whom to vent my anger——’”’ ‘‘T am truly vexed not to beable 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 gained.’’ ‘*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 cuts some figure in it; but that is a point which I seek to hide from myself. A good gentleman who loves without 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.” Eomicbooks com