"The last one? no, lieutenant."
"No, lieutenant! well, repeat it, then; let us hear the order." Then, addressing Chemerant, he said to him, while pointing to his soldier, "He hasn't the memory of a gosling! I am not sorry to give him this lesson before you, it will profit him."
"Confound it! I am not here to assist in educating your functionaries," said Chemerant.
"Well, Thomas, this order?"
"Lieutenant, it was to let no one embark on the vessel."
"Very well, that is all right; now I remove the embargo."
"Go on board at once, madame," said Croustillac, unable to moderate his impatience.
Angela cast a last look at him.
The duke made a despairing effort to break his fetters, but he was quickly carried off to the tender by the soldiers.
At a sign from Blue Beard, the sailors dipped their oars into the sea and headed for the Chameleon.