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He had the blue eyes and the curved nose of the house of Navarre, and the Spanish cut of the marked features which were in after days the type of the Bourbon kings. In a word, the scene now assumed a startling interest. "Well," said Chaudieu, as young Lecamus ended his speech, "this boatman is La Renaudie.
"The queen-mother, for whom the poor devil endured his torture, has already, with a high hand, caused him to be appointed solicitor to the Parliament; and solicitors make better prosecutors than murderers. Don't you remember how Avenelles betrayed the secrets of our first uprising?" "I know Christophe," said Chaudieu, in a positive tone, as he turned to leave the envoy from Geneva.
"The Prince de Conde would be less disdainful of a counsellor of the Parliament," said Lallier. "Well, what say you, Christophe?" urged Babette. "You are counting without the queen," replied the young lawyer. A few days after this rather bitter disillusion, an apprentice brought Christophe the following laconic little missive: Chaudieu wishes to see his son. "Let him come in!" cried Christophe.
"No, my friend," replied the young man, "but parties are ungrateful; and you will be, both you and yours, nothing more than puppets of the Bourbons." "Christophe, if you could hear Calvin, you would know how we wear them like gloves! The Bourbons are the gloves, we are the hand." "Read that," said Christophe, giving Chaudieu Pibrac's letter containing the answer of the Prince de Conde.
"What, at this distance?" cried Chaudieu. "Is there any distance for the mind?" replied Calvin, sternly, for he thought the interruption irreverent. "Catherine seeks power, and women with that in their eye have neither honor nor faith. But what is she doing now?" "I bring you a proposal from her to call a species of council," replied Theodore de Beze. "Near Paris?" asked Calvin, hastily. "Yes."
Chaudieu and Christophe entered the boat, which in a moment was in the middle of the Seine; the sailor then directed its course beneath one of the wooden arches of the pont au Change, where he tied up quickly to an iron ring. As yet, no one had said a word. "Here we can speak without fear; there are no traitors or spies here," said Chaudieu, looking at the two as yet unnamed men.
The Duc de Guise, who was watching Chaudieu, looked fixedly at his brother and at Birago, who were both taken aback by de Beze's answer. "Good God!" remarked the cardinal, "heretics are not diplomatic!" To avoid embarrassment, the queen, who was announced at this moment, had arranged to remain standing during the audience.
"If they had been supported by the attack which Captain Chaudieu, the preacher's brother, was expected to make before the gate of the Bon-Hommes, they would have been completely successful," replied the Duc de Nemours. "But in consequence of the position which the Duc de Guise ordered me to take up, Captain Chaudieu was obliged to turn my flank to avoid a fight.
I shall not be here long, my son. What will become of you without me?" "We shall fight by the light of your books," said Chaudieu. Calvin smiled; his red face changed to a pleased expression, and he looked favorably at Chaudieu. "Well, have you brought me news? Have they massacred many of our people?" he said smiling, and letting a sarcastic joy shine in his brown eyes.
The duchess, not being able to detach the Duc de Nemours from Mademoiselle de Rohan, fell in love, en attendant, with the leader of the Reformers. "What a contrast to Geneva!" said Chaudieu to Theodore de Beze, as they crossed the little bridge of the Louvre. "The people here are certainly gayer than the Genevese. I don't see why they should be so treacherous," replied de Beze.
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