Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington
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Beaucaire.
The young man laughed, and said: "Tell him come here at once. "Impudent to the last!" cried Bantison, as Molyneux hurried from the room. "Now you goin' to see M. Beaucaire's master," said Beaucaire to Lady Mary. "'Tis true what I say, the other night. I cross from Prance in his suite; my passport say as his barber. Then to pass the ennui of exile, I come to Bath and play for what one will. It kill the time. But when the people hear I have been a servant they come only secretly; and there is one of them--he has absolve' me of a promise not to speak--of him I learn something he cannot wish to be tol'. I make some trouble to learn this thing. Why I should do this? Well--that is my own rizzon. So I make this man help me in a masque, the unmasking it was, for, as there is no one to know me, I throw off my black wig and become myself--and so I am 'Chateaurien,' Castle Nowhere. Then this man I use', this Winterset, he--" "I have great need to deny these accusations?" said the Duke. "Nay," said Lady Mary wearily. "Shall I tell you why I mus' be 'Victor' and 'Beaucaire' and 'Chateaurien,' and not myself?" "To escape from the bailiffs for debts for razors and soap," gibed Lord Townbrake. |
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