[The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Merry Men CHAPTER VI 24/27
At first he was inconsolable, insisted on leaving the family, went from paroxysm to paroxysm of tears; and it was only after Anastasie had been closeted for an hour with him, alone, that she came forth, sought out the Doctor, and, with tears in her eyes, acquainted that gentleman with what had passed. 'At first, my husband, he would hear of nothing,' she said.
'Imagine! if he had left us! what would the treasure be to that? Horrible treasure, it has brought all this about! At last, after he has sobbed his very heart out, he agrees to stay on a condition--we are not to mention this matter, this infamous suspicion, not even to mention the robbery.
On that agreement only, the poor, cruel boy will consent to remain among his friends.' 'But this inhibition,' said the Doctor, 'this embargo--it cannot possibly apply to me ?' 'To all of us,' Anastasie assured him. 'My cherished one,' Desprez protested, 'you must have misunderstood.
It cannot apply to me.
He would naturally come to me.' 'Henri,' she said, 'it does; I swear to you it does.' 'This is a painful, a very painful circumstance,' the Doctor said, looking a little black.
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