He turned to them again, and they saw that he was very pale, that
his great dark eyes glowed oddly.
"There will probably be some difficulty in finding a suppleant for
this poor Lagron," he said. "Our fellow-countrymen will be none so
eager to offer themselves to the swords of Privilege."
"True enough," said Le Chapelier gloomily; and then, as if suddenly
leaping to the thing in Andre-Louis' mind: "Andre!" he cried.
"Would you... "
"It is what I was considering. It would give me a legitimate place
in the Assembly. If your Tour d'Azyrs choose to seek me out then,
why, their blood be upon their own heads. I shall certainly do
nothing to discourage them." He smiled curiously. "I am just a
rascal who tries to be honest - Scaramouche always, in fact; a
creature of sophistries. Do you think that Ancenis would have me
for its representative?"
"Will it have Omnes Omnibus for its representative?" Le Chapelier
was laughing, his countenance eager. "Ancenis will be convulsed
with pride. It is not Rennes or Nantes, as it might have been had
you wished it.
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