Since the Languedoc business came to an end, all goes well,' he answered.
Mademoiselle had retired on our arrival, so that her brother and I were for an hour or two this evening thrown together.

I left him at liberty to separate himself from me if he pleased, but he did not use the opportunity.

A kind of comradeship, rendered piquant by our peculiar relations, had begun to spring up between us.

He seemed to take an odd pleasure in my company, more than once rallied me on my post of jailor, would ask humorously if he might do this or that; and once even inquired what I should do if he broke his parole.
'Or take it this way,' he continued flippantly, 'Suppose I had struck you in the back this evening in that cursed swamp by the river, M.de Berault?
What then! PARDIEU, I am astonished at myself that I did not do it.

I could have been in Montauban within twenty-four hours, and found fifty hiding-places and no one the wiser.' 'Except your sister,' I said quietly.
He made a wry face.