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Even when I wanted any little sum of money for my personal expenses, I could not obtain it without collision and I, too, a man whose character it is to govern! One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably I may say like lovers on a height overhanging the sea.
At length, when Hedouville was gone away from one port, and Rigaud from another when neither spy nor foe appeared to remain it seemed to be time for him, who had given peace and leisure to everybody else, to enjoy a little of it himself.
Shadows stole slowly lengthening over the Vaudreuil champaign; the sun swooned down in a glamour of painted clouds; dusk covered from sight the yellows and browns and greens of the August fields; birds stilled with the deepening night; Rigaud Mountain loomed from the plain, a dark long mass under a flying and waning moon; stars came out from the deep spaces overhead, and still Mini lay where he had wept.
The weak point of the expedition was its leader, for Vaudreuil, who was himself a Canadian, had the greatest jealousy of the French officers, and had intrusted the command of the expedition to his brother, Rigaud. The fire did no damage, as the garrison lay sheltered behind their entrenchments, replying occasionally whenever the enemy mustered in force, as if with an intention of attacking.
My brother officer, Rigaud de Genouilly, one of the ship's lieutenants, accompanied me. After two days climbing and bivouacking for one night at a great height, we were only about five or six hundred feet or so from the summit, when we were caught up by a messenger bringing us the captain's orders to get back as fast as we could.
The Governor of Canada, Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, belonged to one of the most ancient families of France, related to that of Levis.
Monsieur Rigaud, as I expected yesterday, the President will look for the pleasure of your society at an hour after mid-day, to-day. 'To try me, eh? said Rigaud, pausing, knife in hand and morsel in mouth. 'You have said it. To try you. 'There is no news for me? asked John Baptist, who had begun, contentedly, to munch his bread. The jailer shrugged his shoulders. 'Lady of mine!
Her former gayety had disappeared. In a few weeks she became thin and seemed to be wasting away. Madame Desvarennes, deeply troubled, questioned her daughter, who answered, evasively, that she was perfectly well and had nothing to trouble her. The mother called in Doctor Rigaud, although she did not believe in the profession, and, after a long conference, took him to see Micheline.
'You villain of ill-omen! said Arthur. 'You have purposely cast a dreadful suspicion upon my mother's house. Why have you done it? What prompted you to the devilish invention? Monsieur Rigaud, after frowning at him for a moment, laughed. 'Hear this noble gentleman! Listen, all the world, to this creature of Virtue! But take care, take care.
On the advice of Lebrun he devoted himself specially to portrait painting, which he did with such success that in 1700 he was elected a member of the Academy. He is said to have shared with Kneller the distinction, such as it may be, of having painted at least five monarchs. Rigaud is best known in these days by the fine prints after his portraits by the French engravers.
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