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Updated: June 15, 2025
Do you know that that idiot of an Abbe Brigaud has got arrested three days ago at Orleans, dressed as a peddler, and on false revelations, which they represented to him as coming from me has confessed all, and compromised us terribly, so that I should not be astonished at being arrested this very day?"
"I am glad to see that you do not easily allow yourself to be discouraged," said Brigaud. "My dear abbe," said D'Harmental, "at this moment I am a happy man, and I see everything on the bright side. If you had taken me in a moment of sadness, it would have been quite the reverse, and I should have replied 'Amen' to your 'De Profundis." "And your opinion?"
"I undertake it," said Brigaud; "my costume does not excite suspicions. I will engage you a lodging as if it was destined for a young man from the country who has been recommended to me, and who has come to occupy some place in an office." "Truly, my dear Brigaud," said the Marquis de Pompadour, "you are like the princess in the 'Arabian Nights, who never opened her mouth but to drop pearls."
"Brigaud," said Valef, "have you still the passport for Spain?" "Yes." "And the same facilities for the route?" "The same. The postmaster is with us, and we shall have only to explain to him."
I shall be six weeks absent. In the name of Heaven, Bathilde, do not forget him who will not pass an hour without thinking of you. This letter written, folded, and sealed, the chevalier rose and went to the window; but as we have said, that of his neighbor was closed when Brigaud appeared. There was then no means of sending to Bathilde the dispatch destined for her.
"You know, chevalier," replied the duchess, "that you may promise as much money as you like." "I undertake to fill the purse," said Brigaud. "That is well, abbe, for I know who will undertake to empty it," said D'Harmental. "Then all is agreed," said the duchess. "In an hour, in the Champs-Elysées."
"Let us see," said Brigaud, and he read: "I do not know what is plotting against us, but the regent invited us Toulouse and me to leave the council. That invitation appeared to me an order, and, as all resistance would have been useless, seeing that we have in the council only four or five voices, upon which we cannot count, I was obliged to obey.
It appeared that Madame Denis had a weakness for Athenais, for instead of talking as she did when Emilie was singing, she listened from one end to the other to the romance of her favorite, her eyes tenderly fixed on the Abbe Brigaud, who, still eating and drinking, contented himself with nodding his head in sign of approbation.
"I am her confessor," replied the Abbe Brigaud, with a modest air. "Then a thousand excuses, my dear abbe; but you are right indeed. Madame Denis is still a beautiful woman, perfectly well preserved, with superb hands and very pretty feet. Peste! I remember that. Go down first; I will follow." "Why not together?" "But my toilet, abbe.
Unfortunately for the future establishment of the Demoiselles Denis, the chevalier was not thinking of uniting the three thousand livres which this generous mother gave to her daughters to the thousand crowns a year which the Abbe Brigaud had bestowed on him.
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