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Assured of the powerful assistance of Abbe Midon, he had confessed all to his father, and confided his secret to Corporal Bavois, who was an honored guest at Escorval; and these devoted friends had promised him all possible aid. The task was very difficult, however, and certain resolutions on the part of Maurice greatly diminished the chance of success.
Pierre Midon had nothing to say in answer, the subject was getting beyond him, and he was a man who, when thought became difficult, gave up thinking altogether.
Abbe Midon and Maurice had already leaped to the ground and were lifting out an apparently lifeless body. Even Marie-Anne's great energy had not been able to resist so many successive shocks; the last trial had overwhelmed her. Once in the carriage, all immediate danger having disappeared, the excitement which had sustained her fled.
It was in the church of the little village of Sairmeuse, on the loveliest of spring days, that this marriage ceremony was performed by the cure who had taken the place of poor Abbe Midon. At the close of the address to the newly wedded pair, the priest uttered these words, which he believed prophetic: "You will be, you must be happy!" Who would not have believed as he did?
At the same hour that Lacheneur presented himself at the house of the Abbe Midon, they were seated upon the terrace in front of the house, gazing anxiously at the two roads leading from Escorval to the chateau, and to the village of Sairmeuse. Warned, that same morning, by his friends in Montaignac of the arrival of the duke, the baron had sent his son to inform M. Lacheneur.
They brought him his horse, and his foot was already in the stirrup, when two men sprang from the neighboring grove and darted toward him. One of them seized the horse by the bridle. "Abbe Midon!" exclaimed Lacheneur, in profound astonishment; "Monsieur d'Escorval!" And foreseeing, perhaps, what was to come, he added, in a tone of concentrated fury: "What do you two men want with me?"
Abbe Midon had never frequented the medical schools, but since he had been a priest the poor so often asked advice of him that he applied himself to the study of medicine, and, aided by experience, he had acquired a knowledge of the art which would have won him a diploma from the faculty anywhere.
"That boy seems to have impressed thee more than the Cardinal himself!" said Midon "but now I remember well on the day the Abbe Vergniaud preached his last sermon, and was nearly shot dead by his own son, there was a rumour that his life had been saved by some boy who was an attendant on the Cardinal, and who interposed himself between the Abbe and the flying bullet, that must have been the one you mean?"
For you will not prove to me that there is any man living who has the right to take the joy out of a woman's soul and destroy it." "It is done every day!" said Midon with a careless shrug, "Women give themselves too easily!" "And men take too greedily!" said Patoux obstinately "What virtue there is in the matter is on the woman's side.
For she mostly gives herself for love's sake, but the man cares naught save for his own selfish pleasure. As a man myself, I am on the side of the woman who revenges herself on her betrayer." "For that matter so am I!" said Midon.
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