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THE STORY OF MANON LESCAUT.
the latter, who, perchance, had been unlucky enough to fall into the hands of a Guardsman or Musketeer on previous occasions, made off, with his coach, frightened out of his wits, and shouting to me as he went that I had cheated him, but that I had not heard the last of him.
I called out to him several times to stop, but in vain. His flight caused me the gravest uneasiness, for I felt certain that he would go and notify the Commissary.
"You have ruined me," I said to Lescaut; "it will be unsafe for me to remain in your house; we must leave this place at once."
I gave my arm to Manon, and we hastened away from a street that was now so full of danger for us. Lescaut accompanied us.
