66 THE NABOB. ¦ "Leave us. You are unworthy of our so- ciety!" " Unworthy!—I, unworthy! I am a hundred times worthier than you all, wretches! You re- proach me my millions! Who helped me to devour them? Thou, cowardly, treacherous companion, who hidest iu the corner of thy box, the obesity of a sick pasha; I made thy fortune at the same time as mine, in the days when we used to share like brothers. Thou, pale Mar- quis—I paid the club one hundred thousand francs to save thee the shame of a public ex- pulsion. Thou, impudent wench, whom I cov- ered with jewels, allowing thee to pass thyself off for my mistress, because such was the fash- ion in our society—though I never required any return for my money. And thou, shame- less scribbler, who hast all the slush of thy ink- stand under thy skull, instead of brains, and on thy conscience as much leprosy as there is on the skin of thy queen—thou tbinkest that I have not paid thee the price of thy worth, and that is why thou insultest------ Yes, yes; look at me, scum!—I feel proud—for I am better than you all." All that, he said mentally, in a delirium of rage, as could be seen by the quivering of his livid lips. Madness was rising to his brain; and the unfortunate man was on the point of shout- ing it all aloud, in the midst of the silence, of soothing his feelingsby returning outrage for outrage, and—who knows—perhaps of rushing into the midst of the crowd, and killing one of them—ah, by heaven! kill one—when he felt a slight touch on his shoulder. He turned round and saw a fair head, candid and grave, and two hands held out to him, which he grasped con- vulsively, like a drowning man. "Ah! dear — dear" — stammered the poor man. But he had not the strength to say more. This sweet emotion, which surprised him in tbe midst of his fit of rage, melted it into a sob full of tears, and blood, and strangled words. His face became purple. He made a sign: "Take me away," andtotteringly, leaning on DeGery's arm, he had only strength to cross the entrance of his box, and reach the corridor, where he fell down. " Bravo! Bravo!" cried the house, at the end of the actor's tirade; and tbe applause sounded like a shower of hail, and the stamping of the crowd was truly enthusiastic. In the mean- while, the big, lifeless body was being painfully raised by the scene-shifters, and carried across the blazing side stage, through a crowd of curi- ous, attracted there by the night's success, who hardly noticed the passage of the inert mass, borne in the arms of men, like a victim of a street row. They laid him upon a couch in the store-room—Paul de Gery standing by him, with a doctor and two men who did their best to succor him. Cardailhac, very busy with his new play, had promised to come presently, to inquire after Jansoulet—when the play was over. They tried everything, blood-letting, cup- ping-glasses, and mustard-poultices. It was all in vain. Nothing brought even a quiver of life on the epiderm of the patient, insensible to the various treatments applied in cases of apo- plexy. Complete helplessness seemed to have marked him already for death, and prepared him for the rigidity of a corpse; and that in the most sinister place of the world—a chaos, lighted by a dark lantern, where lie, pell-mell! in the dust, all the refuse of former plays- gilt furniture, hangings with brilliant fringe, couches, boxes, card-tables, disjointed staircases and balusters, amidst ropes and pulleys—a whole maze of unserviceable stage property, spoiled and broken. Bernard Jansoulet, lying among all those waifs and strays, his shirt cut open on his chest, pale and Weeding, was indeed one of those who have been wrecked on life's ocean—thrown ashore, together with some lamentable fragments of hïs artificial wealth, all crushed and bruised bv the Parisian vortex. Paul stood there, full of sadness and .sorrow, contemplating that short-nosed face, wnich in its helplessness, preserved the good- natured yet angry expression of an inoffensive being, who has tried to defend himself before dying, and has not bad time to injure any one He accused himself of impotence in serving him efficaciously. What bad become of his fine project for leading Jansoulet safely through the quagmires, and saving him from ambushes? All he had been able to do was to save him a few millions—and these had come too late. The windows were opened on the theatre was surrounded by a ribbon of burning gas, a zone of fire. This gave a darker look to the deep streets, tipped here and there by the lanterns of rolling carriages, which looked like stars traveling on an obscure sky. The play was over, and the people were coming out. The crowd, black and compact on the porch, scattered themselves along the wide footpaths, spreading through the town the news of a great success, and repeating a name hitherto un- known, but which to-morrow would hail as triumphant and celebrated. The night was admirable. The windows of restaurants shone merrily, and rows of belated coaches were on their way home. That festive tumult which the Nabob had loved so much, which tallied so well with his own adventurous existence, re- vived him for one moment. His lips moved; and his large eyes, turning towards De Gery, took, just before he died, a painful, imploring, protesting expression, as if to call him to bear witness to one of the greatest, most cruel acts of injustice that Paris had ever perpetrated. THE END. 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