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Agricola, fearing that Mdlle. de Cardoville would retire in terror to the next room, again tapped on the glass, and running the risk of being heard by others, said in a pretty loud voice: "It is Agricola Baudoin." These words reached the ears of Adrienne.
If I have employed stratagem to bring you hither, it is because the blindness of your fatal passion would otherwise have prevented your accompanying me. The Princess de Saint Dizier named to you Agricola Baudoin, the lover of Adrienne de Cardoville. Listen look judge!" The voice ceased. It appeared to have issued from one corner of the room.
"It is I Agricola Baudoin," answered, from, without, a manly voice. What followed was rapid as lightning, and must be conceived rather than described.
Having knocked at the door, the waiting-woman of the Princess de Saint Dizier entered the room, and asked for Frances Baudoin. "She is not at home, madame," said Mother Bunch timidly, not a little astonished at so unexpected a visit, and casting down her eyes before the gaze of this woman. "Then I will wait for her, as I have important affairs to speak of," answered Mrs.
He obtained passports from the King of Denmark, which allowed him to take with him his steadfast friend Count Montjoie, and his faithful servant Baudoin, who had shared all the sufferings of his exile. A letter of credit upon a banker at Copenhagen supplied his immediate pecuniary wants. Louis Philippe in Sweden. His incognito. Journeying northward. Court ball of King Gustavus.
Presently there was a flash, a cloud of smoke, and the report of a cannon came booming down to the shore from the Manor House. "That was well done of Martin and the women!" remarked Felix Baudoin, who had served in his youth, and therefore knew what was fitting in a military salute. "'The women of Tilly are better than the men of Beauce, says the proverb."
Baudoin was one of those Acadian priests who are praised for services "en empeschant les sauvages de faire la paix avec les Anglois, ayant mesme este en guerre avec eux." Champigny au Ministre, 24 Oct., 1694. On the fourth of July, Frontenac left Montreal, at the head of about twenty-two hundred men.
The day before, Frances Baudoin, absorbed in her own grief, had forgotten to tell him that the two orphans also should be present at this meeting, and had she even thought of it, Dagobert would have prevented her mentioning this circumstance to the young priest.
Now the prow touched the stones of the stair, and folk were busy to lay hold of it that the wayfarers might land, but Sir Baudoin cried out in a great voice: Let none be so hardy as to touch this ferry, either now or hereafter; for there is peril therein.
He was a fine, youth, and a poet one Agricola Baudoin and was discovered in a secret place, attached to your bed-chamber. All Paris was amused with the scandal for you are not about to marry an unknown person, dear prince; her name has been in every mouth."
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