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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Alas!" said Madame de Belliere, sighing, "because your visit to me was the cause of your being visited with a great misfortune; because my house is watched; because the same eyes that have seen you already might see you again; because I think it less dangerous for you that I should come here than that you should come to my house; and, lastly, because I know you to be already unhappy enough not to wish to increase your unhappiness further."
On the left of the surintendant sat Madame de Belliere; on his right was Madame Fouquet; as if braving the laws of the world, and putting all vulgar reasons of propriety to silence, the two protecting angels of this man united to offer, at the moment of the crisis, the support of their twined arms.
"Do you not know it?" "I am utterly ignorant of everything about him," said Madame de Belliere, with the poignant anguish that suspends thought and speech, and even life itself. "In the first place, then, the king's favor is entirely withdrawn from M. Fouquet, and conferred on M. Colbert." "So it is stated." "It is very clear, since the discovery of the plot of Belle-Isle."
As she leaned back on the sofa on which she was sitting, Madame de Belliere covered the paper with the thick folds of her large silk dress, and so concealed it. "Come, Marguerite, tell me, is it to tell me all these foolish reports that you have come to see me so early in the day?"
"I was told that the discovery of the fortifications there had turned out to M. Fouquet's honor." Marguerite began to laugh in so cruel a manner that Madame de Belliere could at that moment have delightedly plunged a dagger in her bosom. "Dearest," continued Marguerite, "there is no longer any question of M. Fouquet's honor; his safety is concerned.
"Positive, madame. Besides, there is no difficulty in weighing them." "The amount is entered in my books." "Your ladyship is extremely methodical, I am aware." "Let us now turn to another subject," said Madame de, Belliere; and she opened one of her jewel-boxes. "I recognize these emeralds," said M. Faucheux; "for it was I who had the setting of them.
As if she only awaited this signal to discharge her shaft, Marguerite exclaimed, "Well, Elise, it is said you are in love." And she looked fixedly at Madame de Belliere, who blushed against her will. "Women never escape slander," replied the marquise, after a moment's pause. "No one slanders you, Elise." "What! people say that I am in love, and yet they do not slander me!"
"I do not now remember the amount of the account." "Of the new service, madame, or of that which M. de Belliere presented to you on your marriage? for I have furnished both." "First of all, the new one." "The covers, the goblets, and the dishes, with their covers, the eau-epergne, the ice-pails, the dishes for the preserves, and the tea and coffee urns, cost your ladyship sixty thousand francs."
"Why, certainly, if you wish to do so." Fouquet reflected for a moment, then looking the captain full in the face, "One single word," said he; "will you remember it?" "I will not forget it." "Will you speak it to whom I wish?" "I will." "Saint-Mande," articulated Fouquet, in a low voice. "Well! and for whom?" "For Madame de Belliere or Pelisson." "It shall be done."
"Alas!" said Madame de Belliere, sighing, "because your visit to me was the cause of your being visited with a great misfortune; because my house is watched; because the same eyes that have seen you already might see you again; because I think it less dangerous for you that I should come here than that you should come to my house; and, lastly, because I know you to be already unhappy enough not to wish to increase your unhappiness further."
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