f youdear sir and friendnever to forget these facts in
future.'
What the sublime and burlesque insolence of the captain could not do
the courteous remonstrance of my father effected immediatelythrowing
Monsieur de Lessay into a furious passion.
'I did forget' he exclaimedbetween his set teethlivid in his rage
and fairly foaming at the mouth; 'the herring-cask always smells of herring
and when one has been in the service of rascals---'
As he uttered the wordthe Captain sprang at his throat; I am sure he
would have strangled him upon the spot but for his daughter and me.
My fathera little paler than his wontstood there with his arms
foldedand watched the scene with a look of inexpressible pity. What
followed was still more lamentable--but why dwell further upon the folly
of two old men. Finally I succeeded in separating them. Monsieur de
Lessay made a sign to his daughter and left the room. As she was
following himI ran out into the stairway after her.
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