“They called Attila the scourge of God.”
“And Napoleon the scourge of man,” replied Théophraste, with difficulty controlling his anger.
How could it be that Théophraste Longuet could have been anything else but an honest being before his birth, during his life, and after his death?
Marceline agreed with him, and Adolphe fearing that he had gone too far made apologies.
CHAPTER VII
Théophraste and His Black Plume
FOR the next few days M. Lecamus and M.
Longuet occupied themselves with evidence of this phenomenon, and were often seen together, conversing mysteriously, in the bar-rooms and about town, about the treason of the first of April. They left the Villa Flots d’Azure to return to Paris, with the intention of searching the libraries. They worked diligently for several days without any result, until M. Longuet began to lose spirit. M. Lecamus was more patient.