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Updated: June 28, 2025
To become the honored wife of Le Gardeur de Repentigny, the sister of the beauteous Amelie, the niece of the noble Lady de Tilly, was a piece of fortune to have satisfied, until recently, both her heart and her ambition. But now Angelique was the dupe of dreams and fancies. The Royal Intendant was at her feet.
"They are surely retreating," she called as soon as I appeared. "They surely are," I replied. "It looks as if they were somewhere near Lizy-sur-I'Ourcq," and that was a guess of which I was proud a little later. I carry a map around these days as if I were an army officer. As Amelie had not been for the milk the night before, she started off quite gayly for it.
In the recess of an ornate mullioned window, half concealed by the rich, heavy curtains of a noble room, Amelie de Repentigny sat alone very quiet in look and demeanor, but no little agitated in mind, as might be noticed in the nervous contact of her hands, which lay in her lap clasping each other very hard, as if trying to steady her thoughts.
An archduke of one of the European courts was just then the guest of the queen, and he had promised to honor Hexham House with his presence. "He shall see such lovely women," said the duchess to her husband, "that he shall go back to his own country in despair." To Lady Amelie she had said, laughingly: "Look your very loveliest. I want you to make a conquest of the archduke."
A few of those who marked these airs drew their own conclusions from them, and thought that, according to the old expression, he had come to the last term with the lady. Amelie, who had come with M. du Chatelet, was sure of the deplorable fact, in a corner of the drawing-room, where the jealous and envious gathered together.
Bowing with well-affected politeness, De Pean attended her to her carriage, and having seen her depart in tears, returned laughing into the Palace, remarking, as he mimicked the weeping countenance of Amelie, that "the Honnetes Gens had learned it was a serious matter to come to the burial of the virtues of a young gentleman like Le Gardeur de Repentigny."
"And is it not a day of business, Amelie? or are we spending it like holiday children, wholly on pleasure? But after all, love is the business of life, and life is the business of eternity, we are transacting it to-day, Amelie! I never was so seriously engaged as at this moment, nor you either, darling; tell the truth!" Amelie pressed her hands in his.
I can tell you one thing on the testimony of Amélie the officers eat well. But they pay for it themselves, so that is all right. The cook was never idle a minute while he was in the house.
The brother of Amelie, Le Gardeur de Repentigny, was her elder by a year an officer in the King's service, handsome, brave, generous, devoted to his sister and aunt, but not free from some of the vices of the times prevalent among the young men of rank and fortune in the colony, who in dress, luxury, and immorality, strove to imitate the brilliant, dissolute Court of Louis XV.
The servants, having communicated this piece of wild intelligence, instantly rushed into the house and repeated it to the household, filling the mansion in a few moments with shrieks and confusion. It was in vain Hortense and Agathe La Corne St. Luc strove to withhold the terrible truth from Amelie.
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