Belle Rose: A Romance of the Cloak and Sword — page 111: what you’re looking at

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A SERPENT IN THE SHADOW. 99 ‘*A carriage and horses!’’ she exclaimed. Her astonished waiting women did not move. ‘*Do you hear me?’’ she repeated. ‘‘Horses! this very moment!’’ One woman, terrified by Madame de Chateaufort’s look, ran hastily out. ‘‘Where is Camille? Let her come,’’ she continued, twisting her long, scattered hair. Camille entered. At the first glance she understood that her mistress had just received some terrible news; the crumpled letter was in her hand. ‘‘When did you receive this letter?’’ exclaimed Madame de Chateaufort. ‘*Yesterday, madame,’’ she replied; ‘‘yesterday morn- ing.’’ ‘‘And it is only to-day I get it!’’ ‘IT presented it to you twice, and twice you repulsed me. ’”’ ‘‘Could you not constrain me to open it?’’ ‘‘Eh! madame he was present!’’ exclaimed Camille, in- dicating with a gesture of inexpressible eloquence Belle- Rose passing through the garden. ‘*You did not know,’’ resumed Madame de Chateaufort, in a choking voice and with her hand upon Camille’s arm, ‘‘yvou did not know that this letter was from him; it is dated yesterday; yesterday he expected me, and he has sworn by the name of his mother thatif he did not see me, he would even come here!”’ ‘The carriage is ready,’’ a female attendant timidly said, half opening the door. Madame de Chateaufort clapped her hands like a child, and hastily seizing a mask and her mantle, she drew Camille toward the door. ‘*Come,’’ said she, ‘‘he is still in Paris, no doubt; noth- ing is lost.’’ Belle-Rose, warned by a lackey of Madame de Chateau- fort’s departure, took a gun and plunged into the park. Delivered to his meditations alone, he observed more surely the indications which had struck him in his preced- ing walks with Madame de Chateaufort. A spy was un- doubtedly prowling about the park The thought came to him that it might be Bouletord, who, infuriated by his discomfiture, was secking a means to avenge himself. ; _ Belle-Rose resolved to immediately get rid of this impor- _ tunate personage. He went to the chateau, slipped into his _ pockets a poniard and pistols, took a sword, waited for (E(0) micooo Ss (G(O) =)