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Before Angele could decide upon her course, the curtain of the other room was thrust aside, and De la Foret entered. He was scarce awake, and he yawned contentedly. He did not see Angele, but turned towards Lempriere. For once the Seigneur had a burst of inspiration. He saw that Angele was in the shadow, and that De la Foret had not observed her. He determined that the lovers should meet alone.
"I will hear you preach next Sunday, sir." There was an instant's pause, and then she said to Angele, with gracious look and in a low voice: "You have heard from me that calumny which the innocent never escape. To try you I neglected you these many days; to see your nature even more truly than I knew it, I accused you but now.
On its being opened the bald and toothless Abednego stumbled in with the word that immediately after Angele and her father came aboard the Honeyflower some fifty halberdiers suddenly appeared upon the Couperon. They had at once set sail, and got away even before the sailors had reached the shore.
With long strides he crossed the garden and reentered the Mission church itself, plunging into the coolness of its atmosphere as into a bath. What he searched for he did not know, or, rather, did not define. He knew only that he was suffering, that a longing for Angele, for some object around which his great love could enfold itself, was tearing at his heart with iron teeth.
Leicester's undoubted gifts were well and cautiously directed, and his talent of assumed passion his heart was facile, and his gallantry knew no bounds was put to dexterous use, convincing for the moment. The Queen seemed all complaisance again. Presently she had Angele brought to her. "How doth her dance compare-she who hath wedded Darnley?"
Angele had come to feel what he was beneath the surface. She felt how unimaginative he was, and how his humour, which was but the horse-play of vanity, helped him little to understand the world or himself.
Now, as the great minister showed himself at the door of the chamber and saw Elizabeth seated with Angele, he drew back instinctively, expectant of the upraised hand which told him he must wait. And, in truth, he was nothing loth to do so, for his news he cared little to deliver, important though it was that she should have it promptly and act upon it soon.
His face had darkened as he had seen Angele beside her, but the Queen's graciousness, whether assumed or real, had returned, and her face carried a look of triumph and spirit and delight.
"And once they've forced you from my doors, I'm for England to speak my mind to the Queen. I can make interest for her presence I hold court office," he added with puffing confidence. Angele looked up at him with quick tears, yet with a smile on her lips. "You are going to England for Michel's sake?" she said in a low voice.
Amazed and bewildered Angele gazed after her. As she stood looking she heard her name called softly. Turning, she saw Michel. They were alone. When De la Foret and Angele saw the Queen again it was in the royal chapel. Perhaps the longest five minutes of M. de la Foret's life were those in which he waited the coming of the Queen on that Trinity Sunday which was to decide his fate.
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