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"Gaston," quoth Andrea next morning, "you will remain at Canaples until to-morrow? You must, for to-morrow I am to be wed, and I would fain have your good wishes ere you go." "Nice hands, mine, to seek a benediction at," I grumbled. "But you will remain? Come, Gaston, we have been good friends, you and I, and who knows when next we shall meet?
He has come hither to tell me that he will not permit his sister to wed the Cardinal's nephew; that he will not have the estates of Canaples pass into the hands of a foreign upstart. He, forsooth he! he! he!" And at each utterance of the pronoun he lunged with his forefinger in the direction of his son. "This he is not ashamed to utter before Yvonne herself!"
"Mademoiselle de Canaples has expressed a wish to accompany her father to Paris and has asked me whether this will be permitted her." My heart leaped. Surely the gods fought on my side! "I cannot permit it," I answered icily. "Monsieur, you are pitiless," he protested in a tone of indignation for which I would gladly have embraced him. I feigned to ponder. "The matter needs consideration.
Thanks to the calumnies which you poured into his ears." "Calumnies! Was that the word?" "I choose the word that suits me best," he answered, and the rage that was in him at the affront he had suffered at the hands of the Chevalier de Canaples was fast rising to the surface. "I warned you at Choisy of what would befall. Your opposition and your alliance with M. de Mancini are futile.
In a measure I am glad that things have fallen out with you as they have done, for when the news goes abroad that you have married Genevieve de Canaples and left the heiress free, your enemies will vanish, and you will have no further need of me. New enemies you will have perchance, but in your strife with them I could lend you no help, were I by."
I prevailed at length upon the love-lorn boy to take some food, but I could lead him to talk of naught save Genevieve de Canaples. Presently he took to chiding me for the deliberateness wherewith I ate, and betrayed thereby his impatience to be in the saddle and after her. I argued that whilst she saw him not she might think of him.
I cried, as I watched the tall, lissom figure vanish through the portals of the chateau. "Did ever God create so crass and obstinate a thing as woman?" It occurred to me to tell Andrea, and bid him warn her. But then she would guess that I had prompted him. Naught remained but to lay the matter before the Chevalier de Canaples. Already I had informed him of my fracas with St.
When we reached the Hotel de la Couronne, half an hour later, we saw that same chaise disappearing round a corner of the street, whilst through the porte-cochere the hostler was leading a pair of horses, foam-flecked and steaming with sweat. Whither went Master Canaples at such a rate, and in a haste that caused him to travel day and night?
"You compelled me to do so," cried Eugene angrily. "I?" ejaculated the Chevalier. "Did I compel you to come hither with your 'I will' and 'I will not'? Who are you, that you should give laws at Canaples? And he adds, sir," quoth the old knight excitedly, "that sooner than allow this marriage to take place he will kill M. de Mancini."
For the rest, since you ask the question, my opponent was, indeed, M. de Canaples Eugene de Canaples." Her face went deadly white, and she sank back in her seat as if every nerve in her body had of a sudden been bereft of power, whilst she of the fair hair burst into tears. A pretty position was this for me! luckily it endured not.
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