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feet ease ami confidence, stopped a few steps
from her, as if to study her features more atten
tively, and then added, like a man who is satis
fied with the observations he had made: " Come!
the unfortunate events of the night before last
have had a less injurious influence than I feared.
There is some improvement; the complexion is
Ices flushed, the look calmer, the eyes still some
what too bright, but no longer shinning with
such unnatural fire. You were getting on so
well! Now the cure must be prolonged for this
unfoitunate night affair threw you into a fctate of
excitement, that wa9 only the more dangerous
from your not being conscious of it. Happily,
with care, your recovery will not, I hope, be very
much delayed." Accustomed though she was to
the audacity of this tool of the Congregation,
Mdlle. de Cardoville could not forbear saying to
him, with a smile of bitter disdain: "What im
pudence, sir, there is in your pity! What effron
tery in your zeal to earn your hire! Never for
a moment do you lay aside your mask; craft and
falsehood are ever on your lips. Really, if this
shameful comedy causes you as much fatigue as
it does ine disgust and contempt, they can never
pay you enough."
"Alas!" said the doctor, in a sorrowful tone;
" always this unfortunate delusion, that you are
not in want of our care! that I am playing a
part, when I talk to you of the sad state in which
you were, when we were obliged to bring you
hither by stratagem. Still, with the exception
of this little sign of rebellious insanity, your con
dition has marvellously improved. You are on
the high, road to a complete cure. By and by,
your excellent heart will render me the justice
that is due me; and, one day, I shall be judged as
I deserve."
" I believe it, sir; the day approaches, in which
you will be judged as you deserve," said Adri
enne, laying great stress upon the two words.
"Always that other vexed idea," said the doc
tor, with a sort of commiseration. "Come, be
reasonable. Do not think of this childishness."
" What! renounce my intention to demand at
the hands of justice reparation for myself, and
disgrace for you and your accomplices? Never
sir never! "
"Well!" said the doctor, shrugging his should
ers; " once at liberty, thank heaven, you will have
many other things to think of, my fair enemy."
"You forget piously the evil that you do; but
I, sir, have a better memory."
" Let us talk seriously. Have you really the
intention of applying to the courts?" inquired
Dr. Baleinier, in a grave tone.
"Yes, sir; and you know that what I intend, I
firmly carry out."
"Well! I can only conjure you not to follow
out this idea," replied the doctor, in a still more
solemn tone; " I ask it as a favor, in the name of
your own interest."
"I think, sir, that you are a little too ready to
confound your interest with mine."
" Now come," f aid Dr. Baleinier, with a feigned
impatience, as if quite certain of convincing
Mdlle. de Cardoville on the instant; "would you
have the melancholy courage to plunge into de
spair two persons full of goodness and generos
ity?" "Only two? The jes4 would be complete, if
you were to reckon three: you, sir, and my aunt,
and Abbe d'Aigrigny; for these are no doubt the
generous persons in whose name you implore
my pity."
" No, madame; I speak neither of myself, nor
of your aunt, nor of Abbe d'Aigrigny."
" Of whom, then, sir?" asked Mdlle. de Cardo
ville, with surprise.
" Of two poor fellows, who, no doubt sent by
those whom you call your friends, got into the
neighboring convent the other night, and thence
into this garden. The guns which you heard go
off were fired at them."
" Alas! I thought so. They refused to tell me.
if either of them was wounded," said Adrienne,
with painful emotion.
"One of them received a wound, but not very
serious, since he was able to fly and escape pur
suit." "Thank God!" cried Mdlle. de Cardoville,
clasping her hands with fervor.
" It is quite natural that you should rejoice at
their escape, but by what strange contradiction
do you now wish to put the officers of justice on
their track? A singular manner, tru'y, of re
warding their devotion!"
"What do you say, sir?" asked Mdlle de Car
doville. "For if they should be arrested," resumed Dr.
'Baleinier, without answering her, "as they have
been guilty of house-breaking and attempted bur
glary, they would be sent to the galleys."
"Heavens! and for my sake!"
" Yes; it would be for you, and what is worse,
by you, that they would be condemned."
"By me, sir?"
"Certainly; that is, if you follow up you ven
geance against your aunt aid Abbe d'Aigrigny
I do not speak of myself, for I am quite safe; in
a word, if you persist in laying your com plaint
before the magistrates, that you have been un
justly confined in this house."
" I do not understand you, sir. Explain your
self," said Adrienne, with growing uneasiness.
"Child that you art!" cried the Jesuit of the
short robe, with an air of conviction; "do you
think that if the law once takes cognizance of
this affair, you can stop short its action where
and when you please? When you leave this
house, you lodge a complaint against me and
against your family; well, what hapjens? The
law interferes, inquires, calls witnesses, enters
into the most minute investigations. Then,
what follows? Why, that this ineturnal escapade,
which the superior of the convent has some in
terest in hushing up for fear of scandal that
this nocturnal attempt, I say, which I also would
keep quiet, is necessarily divulged, and as it in
volves a serious crime, to which a heavy penalty
is attached, the law will ferret into it and find
out these unfortunate men, and if, as is probable,
they are detained in 1'aris by their duties or
occupations, or even by a false security, arising
from tie honorable motives which they know to
have actuated them, they will bo arrested. And
who will be the cause of this arrest? You, by
your deposition against us."
"Oh, sir! that would be horrible; but it is im
possible." "It is very possible, on the contrary," returned
M. Baleinier; " so that, whi'e I and the superior
of the convent, who alone are really entitled to
complain, only wish to keep quiet this unpleas
ant affair, it is you you, for whom these unfor
tunate men have risked the galleys that will de
liver them up to justice."
Though Mdlle. de Cardoville was not complete
ly duped by the lay Jesuit, 6he guessed that the
merci'ul intentions which he expressed with re
gard to Dagobert and his son would be absolutely
subordinate to the course she might take in pres
sing or abandoning the legitimate vengeance
which she meant to claim of authority. Indeed,
Ilodin, whose instructions the doctor was follow
ing without knowing it, was too cunning to have
it said to Mdlle. de Cardoville: "If you attempt
any proceedings, we denounce Dagobert and his
son," but he attained the same end, by inspiring
Adrienne witli fears On the subject of her two lib
erators, so as to prevent her taking any hostile
measures. Without knowing the exact law on
the subject, Mdlle. de Cardoville had too much
good sense not to understand, that Dagobert and
Agricola might be very seriously involved in
consequence of their noctural adventure, and
might even find themselves in a terrible position.
And yet, when she thought of all she had suffered
in that house, and of all the just resentment, she
entertained in the bottom of her heart, Adrienne
felt unwilling to renounce the stern pleasure of
exposing such odious machinations to the light
of day. Dr. Baleinier watched with sullen atten
tion her whom he considered his dupe, for he
thought he could divine the cause of the silence
and hesitation of Mdlle. de Cardoville.
" But, sir," resumed the latter, unable to con
ceal her anxiety, "if I were disposed, for what
ever reason, to make no complaint, and to forget
the wrongs I have suffered, when should I leave
this place?"
" I cannot tell; for I do not know when you
will be radically cured," said the doctor, benign
antly. " You are in a very good way, but
"Still this insolent and stupid acting!" broke
forth Mdlle. de Cardoville, interrupting the doctor
with indignation. "I ask, and if it must be, I
entreat you, to tell me how long I am to be shut
up in this dreadful house, for I shall leave it
some day, I suppose?"
" I hope so, certainly," said the Jesuit of the
short robe, with unction; " but when, I am una
ble to say. Moreover, I must tell you frankly,
that every precaution is taken against such
attempts as those of the other night; and the
most vigorous watch will be maintained, to pre
vent your communicating with any cue. And
all this in your own interest, that your poor head
may not again be dangerously excited."
"So, sir," said Adrienne, almost terrified, "com
pared with what awaits me, the last few days
have been days of liberty."
"Your interest before everything," answered
the doctor, in a fervent tone.
Mdlle. de Cardoville, feeling the impotence of
her indignation and despair, heaved a deep sigh,
and hid her face in her hands.
At this moment, quick footstep were heard in
the passage, and one of the nurses entered, after
having knocked at the door.
" Sir," said she to the doctor, with a frightened
air, "there are two gentlemen below, who wish to
see you instantly, and the lady also."
Adrienne raised her head hastily; her eves
were bathed in tears.
(Continued on page .".)
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