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Eustacie added an invitation, understanding that he would not sit without her permission, and then, as he dropped into a chair, she exclaimed, 'Ah! sir, you are faint, but you are famished. 'It will pass, he said; 'I have not eaten to-day.
Berenger struck his forehead with wrath and perplexity, then cried, joyfully, 'It will not stand for moment. So foul a cheat can be at once exposed. Eutacie, you know you understand, that it was not you but Diane whom I saw and detested; and no wonder, when she was acting such a cruel treason! 'Oh no, Diane would never so treat me, cried Eustacie. 'I see how it was!
'Folly, child, folly, said the Chevalier, who supposed her ignorant of the circumstances of her husband's assassination; and the Abbess, who was really ignorant, exclaimed 'Fid donc niece; you know not what you say. 'I know, Madame I know from an eye-witness, said Eustacie, firmly.
Then you had better come to see me at once. So will evil tongues best be silenced. 'But hold, the Duchess said, smiling. 'You will think me a foolish old woman, but is it true that you have saved the Pearls of Ribaumont, of which good Canon Froissart tells? Eustacie lifted her child on her knee, untied the little gray frock, and showed them fastened beneath, well out of sight.
Poor Eustacie was well pleased to see her blood flowing, and sank back on her pillow murmuring that she had confessed her husband's faith, and would soon be one with him, and Diane feared for a moment lest the swoon should indeed be death.
To part with the first, or to risk the second in the pirate-ship, was impossible, but Eustacie at last decided upon detaching the pear-shaped pearl which was nearest the clasp, and which was so remarkable in form and tint that there was no doubt of its being well known.
'My husband! returned Eustacie proudly. 'Bah! You know better than that! Then, as Eustacie was about to speak, but checked herself, Diane added, 'Yes, my poor friend, he has a something engaging about him, and we all would have hindered you from the pain and embarrassment of a meeting with him. Eustacie smiled a little saucy smile, as though infinitely superior to them all.
Long, long, then, did Eustacie sit, muffled in her gray cloak, shrinking together to shelter herself from the sunset chill of early spring, but shuddering more with horror than with cold as the cruel cold-blooded words she had heard recurred to her, and feeling as if she were fast within a net, every outlet guarded against her, and search everywhere; yet still with the indomitable determination to dare and suffer to the utmost ere that which was dearer than her own life should come into peril from her enemies.
Was it not possible that, with Philip free to tell his story at home, his own deliverance might come before he should be irrevocably committed to Madame de Selinville? If Eustacie were living, her claims must overthrow that which her rival was forcing upon him at her own peril. Nay, how else could he obtain tidings of her?
He must go as Marquis de Nid de Merle, in full possession of your estates. 'Let him take them, began Eustacie, 'who first commits a cowardly murder, and then forces himself on the widow he has made?
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