Comtesse De Charny by Alexandre Dumas

Author:Alexandre Dumas [Dumas, Alexandre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781290757638
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Publisher: Hard Press Editions
Published: 2012-07-31T14:00:00+00:00

212 LA COMTESSE DE CHARNY.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

THE PROMISE.

When the queen regained her own apartments she threw herself on a sofa and motioned Charny to close the door behind him.

She had hardly seated herself, however, before her over-burdened heart found vent in a fit of passionate sobbing.

Her grief was so intense and so genuine that it touched Charny deeply, and fanned the dying embers of his former passion into new life; for such a passion as we have seen quicken and glow and blaze in the heart of this man is never wholly extinguished unless it is subjected to one of those terrible shocks which transform love into hatred.

He had learned to love Andrιe with all the fire of his heart; but he loved the queen with all the tender compassion of his soul.

Without speaking, but unquestionably with more love than respect, Charny approached the queen, drew from her face one of the hands that covered it, and pressed it to his lips.

Madame, I am proud to tell you that there has not been an hour or a day since I left you in which I have not been busy in your behalf, he said earnestly.

Ah, Charny, there was a time when you would have laboured much less diligently in my behalf, perhaps, but when you would have thought of me much more frequently.

I was burdened with a grave responsibility, madame. My mission necessitated the utmost secrecy up to the time of its entire completion. This was not accomplished until

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