9/33 She has a character, M.le Vidame. But if she prefer to stay here--well!" "Oh, she has a character, has she ?" rejoined the giant, his eyes twinkling with evil mirth, "and she should go home with you, and my old friend Madame d'O, to save it! That is it, is it? Come. Let us go and do it." "Do you mean it ?" said the priest, starting and looking up with a subtle challenge--almost a threat--in his tone. |