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But as to men, I have met one or two. There is your father, for example. And that brave and handsome Brignan de Brignan." Whether I loved or not, I was certainly capable of jealousy; and jealousy of the fiercest arose at the name of Brignan de Brignan. I had never seen him; but she had mentioned him to me before, too many times indeed for me to hear his name now with composure.
He was a young gentleman of the King's Guard, of whom, by reason of a distant relationship, her family had seen much during a residence of several months in Paris. "Brignan de Brignan," I echoed. "Yes, I dare say he has looked more into the faces of women than into books." "And more into the face of danger than into either. That's what has made him the man he is." "Tut!"
I opened the packet, and found a piece of paper, to which two wisps of hair were fastened by a thread, and on which was written in a large, dashing hand: "Behold my moustaches. Brignan de Brignan." And so, after all, I might keep my promise to Mlle. Celeste! Two days later we arrived at Hugues's house, and were received with great joy by him and Mathilde.
I had come from home to see danger, and here it was, though my present adventure was something different from cutting off the moustaches of Brignan de Brignan. And still my emotions were sweetened by the sense of what the Countess had disclosed, fatal though that disclosure might be to her also.
I had not the faintest idea yet of how I should go about encountering Brignan de Brignan and getting into a quarrel with him, and I had great misgivings as to how I should be able to conduct myself in that quarrel, and as to its outcome. Certainly no man ever took the road on a more incredible, frivolous quest.
But you shouldn't show malice toward those who prefer to meet it in the wars or on the road." "Malice? Not I. What is Brignan de Brignan to me? You may say what you please this Plutarch is as good a school of heroism as any officer of the King's Guard ever went to." "Yet the officers of the King's Guard aren't pale, moping fellows like you lovers of books.
I have done nothing for you, but if I had done much I should have been repaid already in the acquaintance of Monsieur de la Tournoire." "A truce to flattery," said my father. "It is I who am the gainer by the acquaintance of Monsieur Brignan de Brignan." "Eh! Brignan de Brignan!" I echoed. "That is this gentleman's name," said my father, wondering at my surprise.
As I took my leave of Brignan de Brignan before the inn gate, I noticed that his moustaches had undergone a diminution: indeed they now extended no further than his lips. I supposed he had decided not to be distinguished by such marks again. He expressed a hope of renewing acquaintance with me in Paris, and rode off.
In the afternoon, when Brignan de Brignan and his comrades reappeared, the Countess was able to ride: and that evening we were all in Bonneval. Monsieur de Brignan had taken possession of several things found in an iron-bound chest where Captain Ferragant had kept his treasures.
"Oh, yes: I believe you fought a duel, and were present when some highway robbers were taken; and now you have come back to rest on your laurels." "No; I came back to give you these, as I promised." And I threw her the packet containing the moustaches of Brignan de Brignan. She opened it, and regarded the contents with amazement. I laughed.
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