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country, whatever Father Corbelan may say. And I’m not somuch of an unbeliever as not to have faith in my own ideas,in my own remedies, in my own desires.’‘Yes,’ said Mrs. Gould, doubtfully.‘You don’t seem convinced,’ Decoud went on again inFrench. ‘Say, then, in my passions.’Mrs. Gould received this addition unflinchingly. Tounderstand it thoroughly she did not require to hear hismuttered assurance—‘There is nothing I would not do for the sake of Antonia.There is nothing I am not prepared to undertake. There isno risk I am not ready to run.’Decoud seemed to find a fresh audacity in this voicing ofhis thoughts. ‘You would not believe me if I were to say thatit is the love of the country which—‘She made a sort of discouraged protest with her arm, asif to express that she had given up expecting that motivefrom any one.‘A Sulaco revolution,’ Decoud pursued in a forcible undertone.‘The Great Cause may be served here, on the veryspot of its inception, in the place of its birth, Mrs. Gould.’Frowning, and biting her lower lip thoughtfully, shemade a step away from the door.‘You are not going to speak to your husband?’ Decoud arrestedher anxiously.‘But you will need his help?’‘No doubt,’ Decoud admitted without hesitation. ‘Everythingturns upon the San Tome mine, but I would rather hedidn’t know anything as yet of my—my hopes.’