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He sat down by the window on the solitary wooden chair that was in his cell, and at once fell into a profound slumber.
Then climbing from terrace to terrace, although all the gates were shut, he had no difficulty in arriving immediately beneath the window of Madame de Renal's bedroom, which, on the garden side, was no more than nine or ten feet above the ground.
He placed his ladder against the wall by the side of the window and tapped himself on the shutter, softly at first then more loudly.
'For pity's sake, open the window.
I must speak to you, I am too wretched!' and he knocked until the window nearly broke.
A little sharp sound was heard; the catch of the window gave way; he pushed it open and sprang lightly into the room.
He took a few steps towards the window; he was already opening it.
'Remember not to answer, if anyone knocks,' she reminded him as she turned the key outside; 'anyhow, it would only be the children playing.''Make them go into the garden, below the window,' said Julien, 'so that I may have the pleasure of seeing them, make them speak.''Yes, yes,' cried Madame de Renal as she left him.
After luncheon she managed to shepherd the children underneath the window of Madame Derville's room.
'I am going to jump down into the courtyard from the window of the closet, and escape through the garden, the dogs know me.
She went with him to the window of the closet; she then took such time as she required to conceal his garments.
What would have happened to him on the night of his arrival at Verrieres if, at the moment when he placed his ladder against Madame de Renal's bedroom window, he had found that room occupied by a stranger, or by M. de Renal?
He looked up at the window of Mademoiselle de La Mole's room.
This first floor stood so high, that, as he advanced beneath the lime-alley, letter in hand, Julien could not be seen from Mademoiselle de La Mole's window.
Mademoiselle de La Mole appeared behind her closed window; he half showed her his letter; she bowed her head.
Take the gardener's long ladder from beside the well; place it against my window and come up to my room.
He went to fetch the huge ladder, waited five minutes, to allow time for a countermand, and at five minutes past one placed the ladder against Mathilde's window.
As he reached the window, she opened it silently:'Here you are, Sir,' Mathilde said to him with deep emotion; 'I have been following your movements for the last hour.'
She thought she had heard a window being opened.
He spent all his time at a little window in the attics of the house; the shutters were carefully closed, and from there, at least, he could catch a glimpse of Mademoiselle de La Mole when she appeared in the garden.
Julien had not wisdom enough to say to himself: 'I must venture all'; but as he looked up at the window of Mathilde's room, he could see through the shutters that she was putting out her light: he pictured to himself that charming room which he had seen, alas, once only in his life.
With the hammer of one of his pocket pistols, which he broke, Julien, animated for the moment by a superhuman force, wrenched open one of the iron links of the chain which bound the ladder; in a few minutes it was free, and he had placed it against Mathilde's window.
'But if it should occur to them to open the window, they will see the ladder!'Julien said to her.
Fortunately, his martial valour was not put to the proof: he laid down the ladder in its accustomed place; he replaced the chain that fastened it; he did not forget to come back and obliterate the print which the ladder had left in the border of exotic flowers beneath Mathilde's window.
She was at her window.
'It is no use your looking out of the window,' he foolishly exclaimed to Julien.
It was only in fear and trembling and safely concealed behind a big oak tree that he ventured to raise his eyes to the window of Mademoiselle de La Mole's room.
But the paces of that horse which she knew so well, the way in which Julien rapped with his whip at the stable door to summon a groom, sometimes drew Mathilde to stand behind her window curtain.
It was beside a bower of honeysuckle arranged so as to hide the ladder, in the garden, that he was accustomed to take his stand in order to gaze at the distant shutters of Mathilde's window and lament her inconstancy.
de Cholin will hire a window, sharing the expense with the abbe Maslon.
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