[El Dorado by Baroness Orczy]@TWC D-Link bookEl Dorado CHAPTER XXI 21/24
It was easy for me, of course: 'Hola, Dupont! my boots, Dupont!' 'One moment, citizen, my daughter--' 'Curse thy daughter, bring me my boots!' and Jeanne Lange walked out of the Temple prison her hand in that of that lout Dupont." "But Armand does not know that she is in the Rue de Charonne ?" "No.
I have not seen him since that early morning on Saturday when he came to tell me that she had been arrested.
Having sworn that he would obey me, he went to meet you and Tony at La Villette, but returned to Paris a few hours later, and drew the undivided attention of all the committees on Jeanne Lange by his senseless, foolish inquiries.
But for his action throughout the whole of yesterday I could have smuggled Jeanne out of Paris, got her to join you at Villette, or Hastings in St. Germain.
But the barriers were being closely watched for her, and I had the Dauphin to think of.
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