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Farther down the Jumna stands Agra, and here we make another break in our railway journey eastwards. It is called the "Taj Mahal," or "royal palace," and is a mausoleum in memory of Shah Jehan's favourite wife, Mumtaz, by whose side he himself reposes in the crypt of the mosque.
Although there used to come to the bench under her window the son of Rabelais, who had seven boats on the Loire, Jehan's eldest, Marchandeau the tailor, and Peccard the ecclesiastical goldsmith, she made fun of them all, because she wished to be taken to church before burthening herself with a man, which proves that she was an honest woman until she was wheedled out of her virtue.
They then sang, by Jehan's desire, a lay of Christine de Pisan, every word of which breathed love. "Ah! cousin, what a deep and powerful voice you have. It seems to pierce me." "Where?" said the impudent Sylvia.
As the day of Father Jehan's visit was close at hand, Bertha, whose suspicions were aroused by this speech, wrote him that it was her wish that he should not come this year, without, however, telling him her reason; then she went in search of La Fallotte at Loches, who was to give her letter to Jehan, and believed everything was safe for the present.
Once again Jehan's hand sought his weapon and once again he was restrained. "He is in one of his bad moods," said Isabeau. "Leave him to himself," and she drew her reluctant companion back to the table, while Villon seated himself in a corner of the settle, staring into the fire.
If I am to live my days here I must make a fair conquest." The man fell back sullenly, and there were anxious faces in the retinue jogging twenty yards behind. But no care sat on Jehan's brow. He plucked sprays of autumn berries and tossed and caught them, he sang gently to himself and spoke his thoughts to his horse.
The captain adjusted Jehan's head upon an inclined plane of cabbage-stumps, and on the very instant, the scholar fell to snoring in a magnificent bass. Meanwhile, all malice was not extinguished in the captain's heart. "So much the worse if the devil's cart picks you up on its passage!" he said to the poor, sleeping clerk; and he strode off.
Now, these two marks I have not yet been able to get together. You know it." "I know that I stand in need of money," repeated Jehan for the third time. "And what are you going to do with it?" This question caused a flash of hope to gleam before Jehan's eyes. He resumed his dainty, caressing air. "Stay, dear Brother Claude, I should not come to you, with any evil motive.
Something very similar to Faust's cell presented itself to Jehan's view, when he ventured his head through the half-open door. It also was a gloomy and sparsely lighted retreat.