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"Active! My friend, it is a seething cauldron of political emotions.
It is kept quiet on the surface only by the persuasion that all goes
well. At a hint to the contrary it would boil over."
"Would it so?" said Scaramouche, thoughtfully. "The knowledge may
be useful." And then he changed the subject. "You know that La
Tour d'Azyr is here?"
"In Nantes? He has courage if he shows himself. They are not a
docile people, these Nantais, and they know his record and the part
he played in the rising at Rennes. I marvel they haven't stoned
him. But they will, sooner or later. It only needs that some one
should suggest it."
"That is very likely," said Andre-Louis, and smiled. "He doesn't
show himself much; not in the streets, at least. So that he has
not the courage you suppose; nor any kind of courage, as I told
him once. He has only insolence."
At parting Le Chapelier again exhorted him to give thought to what
he proposed. "Send me word if you change your mind. I am lodged
at the Cerf, and I shall be here until the day after to-morrow.


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