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"Y-y-y-yah you is, Mistuh Charles," he stuttered. "Ah, Williams concealed weapons? That is fifty dollars fine in your native Tennessee, isn't it?" Then to Brissac: "Please go to the farther window and mark down for me, Mr. Brissac. I don't like to have those fellows do all the bluffing."
My sister, as I have said in its proper place, had married the Duc de Brissac, and the marriage had not been a happy one. After a time, in fact, they separated. My sister at her death left me her universal legatee; and shortly after this, M. de Brissac brought an action against me on her account for five hundred thousand francs.
The dowager Duchesse d’Uzés is a sculptor of mark, and when during the autumn Mme. de Trédern gives opera at Brissac, she finds little difficulty in recruiting her troupe from among the youths and maidens under her roof whose musical education has been thorough enough to enable them to sing difficult music in public.
De Brissac at once issued orders, and strong parties of soldiers scattered and proceeded to cut down fences and bushes, and to form large faggots. Their movements were observed by the men placed on the summit of the tower, and no doubt was entertained of the intentions of the enemy. "What do you think we had better do, Philip?"
"With Dick to lead them, the track-layers would sack this place in about five minutes. If I could only get to the wire!" Brissac heard the "if." "Let me try to run their picket line, Ford," he said eagerly. "If I can get around to our quarters and into the telegraph tent " "You couldn't do it, Roy. There is the proof of it," pointing to the body of the slain negro.
The duke de Broglio commanded a separate body between Hansbergen and Minden, on the other side of the Weser; and a third, under the duke de Brissac, consisting of eight thousand men, occupied a strong post by the village of Coveldt, to facilitate the route of the convoy's from Paderborn.
Mayenne, Lorraine, Guise, Nemours, Mercoeur, Montpensier, Joyeuse, Epernon, Brissac, D'Arlincourt, Balagny, Rochefort, Villeroy, Villars, Montespan, Leviston, Beauvillars, and countless others, figured in the great financier's terrible account-book, from Mayenne, set down at the cool amount of three and a half millions, to Beauvoir or Beauvillars at the more modest price of a hundred and sixty thousand livres.
Since we were too late to find the gates open, we must wait till ten of the clock, at which hour the St. Denis gate would be in the hands of a certain Brissac, who would pass us with a wink at the word St. Quentin.
I found her upon a couch in the most agreeable and genteelest deshabille imaginable: she never in her life looked so handsome, nor was so greatly surprised; and, seeing her speechless and confounded: 'What is the matter, my fair one? said I, 'methinks this is a headache very elegantly set off; but your headache, to all appearance, is now gone? 'Not in the least, said she, 'I can scarce support it, and you will oblige me in going away that I may go to bed. 'As for your going to bed, to that I have not the least objection, said I, 'but as for my going away, that cannot be, my little princess: the Chevalier de Grammont is no fool; a woman does not dress herself with so much care for nothing. 'You will find, however, said she, 'that it is for nothing; for you may depend upon it that you shall be no gainer by it. 'What! said I, 'after having made me an appointment! 'Well, replied she hastily, 'though I had made you fifty, it still depends upon me, whether I chose to keep them or not, and you must submit if I do not. 'This might do very well, said I, 'if it was not to give it to another. Mademoiselle de l'Orme, as haughty as a woman of the greatest virtue, and as passionate as one who has the least, was irritated at a suspicion which gave her more concern than confusion; and seeing that she was beginning to put herself in a passion: 'Madam, said I, 'pray do not talk in so high a strain; I know what perplexes you: you are afraid lest Brissac should meet me here; but you may make yourself easy on that account: I met him not far from this place, and God knows that I have so managed the affair as to prevent his visiting you soon. Having spoken these words in a tone somewhat tragical, she appeared concerned at first, and, looking upon me with surprise: 'What do you mean about the Duke de Brissac? said she.
Story of the Comte de Horn. Quarrel of the King of England with His Son. Schemes of Dubois. Marriage of Brissac. His Death. Birth of the Young Pretender. Cardinalate of Dubois. Illness of the King. His Convalescence. A Wonderful Lesson. Prudence of the Regent. Insinuations against Him. Projected Marriages of the King and of the Daughter of the Duc d'Orleans How It Was Communicated to Me.
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