Belle Rose: A Romance of the Cloak and Sword — page 275: what you’re looking at

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THE GARDENER’S NEPHEW. 259 and itis a care of which he will willingly acquit himself. But let us no longer speak of this; in what part ef the convent are you lodged?”’ ‘In the right wing; you can see my room from here. Down there at the end.’’ “It is twenty feet from the ground.’’ ‘* Almost. ”’ ‘If need be you can descend with your bed-clothes tied together?’”’ ‘‘T believe so; but there are dogs.’’ ‘Castor and Pollux.’’ ‘Ah! you know them?’’ ‘‘T know everything. ’”’ ‘Then you know that they are turned loose at night.”’ ‘‘Perfectly. Do you recollect mythology, Suzanne?”’ ‘*A little.”’ ‘‘Well, we well treat Castor and Pollux as Cerberus was treated. Our friend Déroute will take care to provide him- self with a quarter of lamb.”’ ‘‘But after the dogs, there are the gardeners.”’ ‘*We will put them to sleep.’’ ‘*And then the walls.’”’ ‘*We will cross them.”’ ‘*And there is still Monsieur de Louvois.”’ ‘*We will laugh at him.”’ ‘‘And Monsieur de Charny.”’’ ‘Oh! he is a man who will do well not to present him- self before our friend Jacques.”’ “Stay, Claudine!’’ said Suzanne, who had not been able to pronounce the name of the minister and that of his favorite without shuddering, ‘‘if this attempt should make Jacques meet the least danger, I would prefer to take the vail and die here.”’ **And if you should have to remain at the convent only fifteen days longer, Jacques would prefer to enter the Bastile and never leave it.”’ ‘*Poor friend !’’ *“Come!’’? said Claudine, ‘‘let us come to an understand- ing. Cornelius comes to the parlor every two days.’’ “It is rather often.’ *‘Quite true. He informs me of the projects which Belle- a - Rose, Déroute, and himself have combined; while they act on the outside, we act on the inside; I get possession of _ Sister Assumption’s keys, and familiarize myself with of hs Castor and Pollux, we leave every day some gold-pieces in Eomichoo cS (Go)