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Updated: June 12, 2025
Gabriel took the roll and eagerly untied the cord, and then he carefully spelled out every word of the writing, which was signed by Count Pierre de Bouchage.
Du Bouchage, you will start for Chateau-Thierry, if you please." "Sire," said Henri, "may I be permitted, after having announced your majesty's arrival to Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou, to return to Paris?" "You may do as you please, Du Bouchage," said the king. Henri bowed and advanced toward the door. Fortunately Joyeuse was watching him narrowly.
Again, in the same way were the worst Spartan natures displayed in a heroic sense, after they had commenced life by a persistence in dissimulation and cruelty. All we have now to sketch is the portrait of a man of an ordinary stamp; and yet, more than one biographer would have found in Henri du Bouchage, at twenty years of age, the materials for a great man.
"It is singular," said Du Bouchage; "there is nothing unusual in all this, and yet " "And yet you are trembling, you were going to say?" "Yes," said the count; "but what is that?" The sound of a bell was heard. "It is the signal for the supper of the prince's household; are you going to join us at supper, count?"
I knew it, Du Bouchage. You are worldly-minded even in your rigorousness, my poor boy. Oh! I know very well what reason you are going to give me. Yes, you are, indeed, a man of the world; you resemble those young men who offer themselves as volunteers, and are eagerly desirous for fire, balls, and blows, but care not for working in the trenches, or for sweeping out the tents.
"Meanwhile, monseigneur," said Henri, "will your highness take the command of my men? It is not fit that I should continue to do so when you are here." "So be it; and, first, I order every one to sup, particularly you, Du Bouchage you have eaten nothing." "Monseigneur, I am not hungry." "In that case return to visit the posts.
I thought you were in love with a beautiful lady?" "Yes, sire, so I was; but imagine that this evening, after having given my lesson to Du Bouchage, I went to see her, with my head full of his love story, and, believing myself almost as much in love as he, I found a trembling frightened woman, and thinking I had disturbed her somehow, I tried to reassure her, but it was useless.
Both of them replied that the prince had returned on the previous evening about nightfall, after having been disturbed at an inconvenient hour by Monsieur du Bouchage, who had arrived with a message from the king.
"But if Monseigneur the Duc d'Anjou suspects my mistress of loving M. du Bouchage, or M. de Joyeuse, how did he come to think of carrying her off from him she loved?" "My good man," said Aurilly, "you have trivial ideas, and I fear we shall never understand each other; I have preferred kindness to violence, but if you force me to change my plans, well! I will change them." "What will you do?"
"Innocently, monsieur: for I have always endeavored to keep Monsieur du Bouchage at a distance." "That is termed the art of coquetry, madame; and the result proves the fault." "No one has the right to accuse me, monsieur; I am guilty of nothing. Your feelings of irritation are aroused against me; I shall say no more."
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