They left the Palace with heavy hearts,
after long and vainly seeking an interview, Philibert resolving to
appeal to the Intendant himself and call him to account at the
sword's point, if need be, for the evident plot in the Palace to
detain Le Gardeur from his friends.
Amelie, dreading some such resolution on the part of Pierre, went
back next day alone to the Palace to try once more to see Le
Gardeur.
She was agitated and in tears at the fate of her brother. She was
anxious over the evident danger which Pierre seemed to court, for
his sake and--she would not hide the truth from herself--for her own
sake too; and yet she would not forbid him. She felt her own noble
blood stirred within her to the point that she wished herself a man
to be able to walk sword in hand into the Palace and confront the
herd of revellers who she believed had plotted the ruin of her
brother.
She was proud of Pierre, while she trembled at the resolution which
she read in his countenance of demanding as a soldier, and not as a
suppliant, the restoration of Le Gardeur to his family.
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