15/17 I swear that is so, M.de Marsac.' 'You have not told me yet to whom she gave it,' I said sternly. He is a Jacobin.' 'And why ?' I asked, gazing incredulously at the student. 'Why did she give it to him? Let me have none of your Sorbonne inventions!' He hesitated a moment, looking at me timidly, and then seemed to make up his mind to tell me. 'He found out--it was when we lived in Paris, you understand, last June--that she was a Huguenot. |