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"The grand equerry showed a never-changing and very resolute firmness to the death, together with admirable calmness and the constancy and devoutness of a Christian," wrote M. du Marca, councillor of state, to the secretary of state Brionne; and Tallemant des Reaux adds, "He died with astoundingly great courage, and did not waste time in speechifying; he would not have his eyes bandaged, and kept them open when the blow was struck."
Let us suppose that I allow you to go to St. Sulpice des Reaux. What if you do not return?" "You mistrust me?" I exclaimed, my hopes melting. "You misapprehend me. I mean, what if you are killed?" "I do not think that I shall be." "Ah! But what if you are? What shall I say to my Lord Cardinal?" "Dame! That I am dead, and that he is saved the trouble of hanging me.
Be good enough, Vicomte, to name the rendezvous." "Do you know the chapel of St. Sulpice des Reaux?" "What! Beyond the Loire?" "Precisely, Monsieur. About a league from Chambord by the river side." "I can find the place." "Will you meet us there at nine o'clock to-night?" I looked askance at him. "But why cross the river? This side affords many likely spots!" "Very true, Monsieur.
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He made a sign to his troopers, and when the distance between us had been sufficiently widened, I began: "There is a man at present across the river, yonder, who has done me no little injury, and with whom I have a rendezvous at nine o'clock to-night at St. Sulpice des Reaux, where our swords are to determine the difference between us. I crave, Monsieur, your permission to keep that appointment."
"Did I then but dream that Montresor arrested me yesterday on the road to Meung? Ah! I recollect! M. de Montresor gave me leave on parole to go to Reaux." Then, like an avalanche, remembrance swept down upon me, and my memory drew a vivid picture of the happenings at St. Sulpice. "My God!" I cried. "Am I not dead, then?"
Sulpice des Reaux by night?" "Precisely what I asked Vilmorin. The Marquis desires it, and what will you? since I am going to kill the man, I can scarce do less than kill him on a spot of his own choosing." Michelot screwed up his face and scratched at his grey beard with his huge hand. "Does no suspicion of foul play cross your mind, Monsieur?" he inquired timidly.
"Diable!" I answered. "I am M. de Mancini's friend. It was to shield him that I fought your brother; again, because of my attitude towards him was it that I went perilously near assassination at Reaux. Enemies sprang up about him when the Cardinal's matrimonial projects became known. Your brother picked a quarrel with him, and when I had dealt with your brother, St. Auban appeared, and after St.
"A woman with a pretty nose Is worth a house of solid stone; I'd give for her a hundred reaux, E'en if she quitted me as soon. "Arching eyebrows on a maid, With love the genii would entice, I'd buy her for a thousand reaux, Even if exile were the price. "A woman neither fat nor lean Is like a pleasant forest green, When she unfolds her budding charms, She gleams and glows with springtime sheen."
To the fair Montmorency's very decided proclivity to gallantry was to be attributed if we may believe the scandal-loving Tallemant des Reaux her long confinement, by the Regent Marie de' Medici's consent, within the gloomy fortress of Vincennes, rather than any reason of State for her sharing her husband's imprisonment.
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