The Count of Monte Cristo

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lodge. She returned to Louise, took up the portmanteau, which she had
placed for a moment on the ground, and they reached the archway under
the shadow of the wall.

Eugenie concealed Louise in an angle of the gateway, so that if the
porter chanced to awake he might see but one person. Then placing
herself in the full light of the lamp which lit the yard,--"Gate!" cried
she, with her finest contralto voice, and rapping at the window.

The porter got up as Eugenie expected, and even advanced some steps to
recognize the person who was going out, but seeing a young man striking
his boot impatiently with his riding-whip, he opened it immediately.
Louise slid through the half-open gate like a snake, and bounded lightly
forward. Eugenie, apparently calm, although in all probability her heart
beat somewhat faster than usual, went out in her turn. A porter was
passing and they gave him the portmanteau; then the two young girls,
having told him to take it to No. 36, Rue de la Victoire, walked behind