The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated: Chapter 11 - The Corsican Ogreby@alexandredumas
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The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated: Chapter 11 - The Corsican Ogre

by Alexandre Dumas12mJune 21st, 2022
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At the sight of this agitation Louis XVIII. pushed from him violently the table at which he was sitting. “What ails you, baron?” he exclaimed. “You appear quite aghast. Has your uneasiness anything to do with what M. de Blacas has told me, and M. de Villefort has just confirmed?” M. de Blacas moved suddenly towards the baron, but the fright of the courtier pleaded for the forbearance of the statesman; and besides, as matters were, it was much more to his advantage that the prefect of police should triumph over him than that he should humiliate the prefect. “Sire,——” stammered the baron. “Well, what is it?” asked Louis XVIII. The minister of police, giving way to an impulse of despair, was about to throw himself at the feet of Louis XVIII., who retreated a step and frowned. “Will you speak?” he said. “Oh, sire, what a dreadful misfortune! I am, indeed, to be pitied. I can never forgive myself!” “Monsieur,” said Louis XVIII., “I command you to speak.” “Well, sire, the usurper left Elba on the 26th February, and landed on the 1st of March.” “And where? In Italy?” asked the king eagerly. “In France, sire,—at a small port, near Antibes, in the Gulf of Juan.” “The usurper landed in France, near Antibes, in the Gulf of Juan, two hundred and fifty leagues from Paris, on the 1st of March, and you only acquired this information today, the 3rd of March! Well, sir, what you tell me is impossible. You must have received a false report, or you have gone mad.” “Alas, sire, it is but too true!” Louis made a gesture of indescribable anger and alarm, and then drew himself up as if this sudden blow had struck him at the same moment in heart and countenance. “In France!” he cried, “the usurper in France! Then they did not watch over this man. Who knows? they were, perhaps, in league with him.” “Oh, sire,” exclaimed the Duc de Blacas, “M. Dandré is not a man to be accused of treason! Sire, we have all been blind, and the minister of police has shared the general blindness, that is all.”

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