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He brought with him and in due course delivered a casket of jewels and a letter from the Duke to his betrothed. The diamonds were magnificent, and the letter was a paragon of polite ardors. Mr. Bulmer found the chateau in charge of a distant cousin to de Puysange, the Marquis de Soyecourt; with whom were the Duchess, a gentle and beautiful lady, her two children, and the Demoiselle Claire.
We will be ready to fight you in five years, but we do not intend to be hurried about it." "Yes," de Puysange assented; "yet you err in sending Cumberland to defend Hanover. You will need a better man there." Ormskirk slapped his thigh. "So you intercepted that last despatch, after all! And I could have sworn Candale was trustworthy!"
His arm brushed the elbow of the Duke as de Soyecourt left the salon. The Marquis seemed aware of nothing: the misery of both the men, as de Puysange reflected, was of a sort to be disturbed by nothing less noticeable than an earthquake. "If I had loved you all these years," murmured the Duc de Puysange.
The Prince had seated himself beside the open fire, where he yawned and now looked up with a smile. "Well, Louis," said the Prince de Gatinais "so Monsieur de Puysange and I have run you to earth at last. And I find you have determined to defy me, eh?" "I trust there is no question of defiance," Louis de Soyecourt equably returned.
More unaccountable still, it was the body of Felise de Puysange, whom Jurgen had loved very long ago in Gatinais, a great many years before he set up in business as a pawnbroker. Very strange it was to Jurgen again to see her face.
"Why, Gaston, it bored me to the very verge of yawning in my lover's countenance. I, too, had no idea but that it would bore you equally " "Hein?" said the Duke. " to hear what d'Humieres " "He squints!" cried the Duc de Puysange. " or de Crequy " "That red-haired ape!" he muttered. " or d'Arlanges, or or any of them, was pleased to say.
"My dear Louis," the Duc de Puysange retorted, "her eyes are noticeable, perhaps; and I grant you," he added, slowly, "that her husband is not often troubled by that which they notice." " And the cleverest!" "I have admitted she knows when to be silent. What more would you demand of any woman?" "And yet " The little Marquis waved a reproachful forefinger.
"My father, you are a deplorably sordid person." "My dear," replied the old gentleman, "it does matter. Fiefs last." So he gave his consent to the match, and the two young people were married on Walburga's Eve, on the day that ends April. And they narrate how Florian de Puysange was vexed by a thought that was in his mind. He did not know what this thought was.
Jurgen remembered it was the day before Bellegarde discovered that Count Emmerick's guest, the Vicomte de Puysange, was in reality the notorious outlaw, Perion de la Foret. Well, yonder the yet undetected impostor was talking very earnestly with Dame Melicent: and Jurgen knew all that was in store for this pair of lovers.
Well, I am glad of that. So let us get to the bottom of this business. What do they call you when you are at home?" "Florian de Puysange," he answered, speaking meekly enough. This capable large person was to the young man rather intimidating. "La!" said she. She looked at him very hard. She nodded gravely two or three times, so that her double chin opened and shut. "Yes, and you favor him.
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