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That, however, which Coeur de Lion could least excuse was the general inactivity which prevailed in the camp of the Crusaders so soon as his illness assumed a serious aspect; and the reports which he extracted from his unwilling attendants gave him to understand that the hopes of the host had abated in proportion to his illness, and that the interval of truce was employed, not in recruiting their numbers, reanimating their courage, fostering their spirit of conquest, and preparing for a speedy and determined advance upon the Holy City, which was the object of their expedition, but in securing the camp occupied by their diminished followers with trenches, palisades, and other fortifications, as if preparing rather to repel an attack from a powerful enemy so soon as hostilities should recommence, than to assume the proud character of conquerors and assailants.
"La politesse du coeur," a French expression which can scarcely be translated into English; just as "gentleman" has no precise equivalent in French. Jasmin had been so often advised to visit Paris and test his powers there, that at length he determined to proceed to the capital of France.
"Mon coeur," whispered the lass, and her voice was low and her face half-shamed, but very brave. "We would have so great a son," said she, and hung her head low after one long look at the man. At the jerk on the rein, the horses stopped. "You are the bravest lass I will ever meet," said Bryde, and there was a fire of admiration in his eyes, and a ring in his voice.
"Gaston!" she cried, knowing from his wild look and the string of oaths and curses his followers were blurting out that something had gone amiss. "Gaston, mon coeur! Name of disaster! what is wrong?" "Everything is wrong!" he flung back excitedly. "That devil that renegade that fury, Cleek, the cracksman, is here. He came to the rescue came out of the very skies and all but killed Serpice!"
C'est ta femme, mon coeur!" She threw herself upon him, her arms about his neck, with a tropical ferocity that was a very paroxysm of triumph. "Embrasse moi, Larrabi! Embrasse moi!" she cried. Horrified, outraged, his eyes blazing, he flung her off with a violence surpassing her own, and with loathing unspeakable.
"It was Mademoiselle Mabille en habit de coeur," Madame d'Ivry remarked to Madame Schlangenbad. Barnes, who with his bride-elect for a partner made a vis-a-vis for his sister and the admiring Lord Rooster, was puzzled likewise by Ethel's countenance and appearance. Little Lady Clara looked like a little schoolgirl dancing before her.
Thus, a few days after setting eyes on her, his diary records: "She will call ladies whom she meets for the first time 'Mon coeur, ma chère, ma petite, and I am obliged to rebuke and correct her."
Jacques Coeur managed to escape from prison, got to Rome, and was taken into favour by Nicolas V. and Calixtus III., and was appointed captain of an expedition against the Turks. He is thought to have been wounded in a skirmish with them, for he is known to have died in Chios.
Hubbard was immensely attentive again, with many prospects, said his friends, of landing a winner, and as for Florence, it is due to her to say that she hid her woe most womanfully, if ever woe existed. Indeed, her Lady friends took much comfort in saying that she certainly had lost no flesh over her affaire de coeur, in fact, quite the contrary.
Presently, checking her sobs, she rose, and looked about her in a kind of dream the familiar little room seemed to have suddenly become strange to her, and she thought she saw standing in one corner a figure clad in armour, its vizor was up, showing a sad pale face and melancholy eyes the lips moved and a sighing murmur floated past her ears "Mon coeur me soutien!"
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