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A Conspiracy of the Carbonari

CHAPTER VII
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So away with anxieties, away with cowardly fears.
Some accident might have detained him, might have caused a day's delay.
To-day, yes, to-day he would come at last! To-day she would see him again, would rush into his arms, rest on his heart, never, oh! never to part from him again! Hark, a carriage was stopping before the door! Steps echoed in the corridor.
They approached, stopped at her door! It is he, oh, surely it is he! Darting to the door, she tore it open.
No! It was her father, only her father! With a troubled cry, she sank into the chair beside the door.

Her father went to her; she did not see the sorrowful, almost pitying look he fixed upon her.

She had covered her face with her hands and groaned aloud.
Schulmeister stood before her with a gloomy brow, silent and motionless.
At last, after a long pause, Leonore slowly removed her hands from her face and raised her head.
"Are we rich now ?" she asked in a whisper, as though she feared lest even the walls should hear her question.
"Yes," he exclaimed joyfully, "yes, we are rich." Drawing his pocketbook from his coat, he opened it and poured out its contents, shaking the various papers with their array of high numbers into Leonore's lap.
"Look, my daughter, my beloved child! Look at these wonderful papers.

Ten banknotes, each one fifty thousand francs.

That is half a million, my Leonore! Look at these papers.


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