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'Cap de Bious! said one, 'you have a magnificent doublet, but it will not render you so much service as your cuirass of yesterday. 'Bah! said the other; 'however heavy the sword of M. de Mayenne may be, it will do no more harm to this satin than to my cuirass, and then he went on in a series of bravadoes, which showed that they knew you were near." "And to whom did these men belong?"
"One hundred!" cried Pincornay; "Cap de Bious! I have not got them; I have spent them on my equipment." "Sell your chain, then. But I have something else to add; I have remarked many signs of irritation between different members of your body, and each time a difference arises I wish the matter referred to me, and I alone shall have the power of allowing a duel to take place.
"We wished to know, my dear friend, if it was you up here." "Well, monsieur, now you know it, leave me in peace." "Cap de Bious! have you become a hermit?" "As for that, monsieur, permit me to leave you in doubt." "Ah! bah!" cried St. Maline, trying to enter, "are you really alone? you have no light."
"But it cannot be wrong oh, no, cap de Bious! Is it to M. de Loignac that I have the honor of speaking?" "It is possible," said the officer coldly, and evidently not much charmed at the recognition. "M. de Loignac, my compatriot?" "I do not say no." "My cousin!" "Good! Your card?" "Here it is;" and the Gascon drew out the half of a card, carefully cut.
Never was such surprise painted on so many faces; for an hour nothing was heard but "saudioux," "mordioux!" and "cap de Bious!" and such noisy joy, that it seemed to the Fournichons that all Poitou and Languedoc were collected in their room. Some knew, and greeted each other. "Is it not singular to find so many Gascons here?" asked one.
I had just received a letter from my sweetheart, and was reading it, cap de Bious! near the river, about a mile from here, when a gust of wind carried away both my letter and my hat. I ran after the letter, although the button of my hat was a single diamond; I caught my letter, but my hat was carried by the wind into the middle of the river.
"Thus," continued De Loignac, "you have to follow me at once; your equipages and servants will remain here, M. Fournichon will take care of them: we will send for them; but now, be quick! the boats are ready." "The boats!" cried they. "Certainly; to go to the Louvre, we must go by water." "To the Louvre!" cried they, joyfully. "Cap de Bious! we are going to the Louvre."
"What is the meaning of this?" cried all. "Oh! it is to keep us out of Paris," said the cavalier, who had been speaking in a low voice to his companions. "These guards, this crier, these bars, and these trumpets are all for us; we ought to be proud of them." "Room!" cried the officer in command; "make room for those who have the right to pass!" "Cap de Bious!
It will make the fortune of the poor devil who finds it." "So that you have none?" "Oh, there are plenty in Paris, cap de Bious! I will buy a more magnificent one, and put in it a still larger diamond." The officer shrugged his shoulders slightly, and said, "Have you a card?" "Certainly I have one or rather two." "One is enough, if it be the right one."
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