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Updated: May 13, 2025
It might well be that she had paid too tardy a visit, but at least he would essay to trifle with her charms. Many things had happened to the kingdom over which, for the first time, his Majesty the King held undivided authority since the night of Caylus fight.
Had you lived at court only a month I might shield her all I could, M. de Caylus, it would avail nothing. Not Madame de Sauves is better known. And I would not if I could! I know well, though my wife will not believe it, that there is nothing so near Madame d'O's heart as to get rid of her sister and me of both of us that she may succeed to Madeleine's inheritance!
But you wish us to wait for that precise moment because you, and your master, wish it to seem patent to all the world that the deed was done by the Marquis of Caylus on his own ground, to defend his own honor. Once again, we demand hereafter the favor and protection of his highness the Prince of Gonzague." This time Peyrolles needed no pause for reflection.
"Or, if M. d'Entragues will permit me," exclaimed the Gascon, who was riding by my side, "I, M. de Boisrosé of St. Palais, will appear in his place and make the Viscount de Caylus swallow the glove." "Sir," said M. Louis, with politeness, and in a steady tone, "you are a gentleman. I am obliged to you."
"M. de Montmorenci was a man," he said scornfully. "M. Anne de Caylus is " And the villain deliberately turned his great back upon us, taking his seat on the low wall near Catherine's chair. It was clear even to our vanity that he did not think us worth another word that we had passed absolutely from his mind. Madame Claude came waddling out at the same moment, Gil carrying a chair behind her.
But to the unphilosophic eye of the majority of mankind things seemed to change greatly in a very little while; and it seemed, therefore, to the superficial, that many things had happened in France and in Paris during the seventeen years that had elapsed since the fight in the moat of Caylus.
Then, turning to her other visitor, she said: "Mon cousin, allow me to present my friend. Monsieur Arbuthnot Monsieur le Vicomte Adrien de Caylus." I had suspected as much already. Who but he would have dared to assume these airs of insolence? Who but her suitor and my friend's rival? I had disliked him at first sight, and now I detested him.
The others must leap their horses out of the road in the confusion, cross the river at the Arembal Ford if they are not overtaken, and make for Caylus." He hesitated. I do not know whether it had anything to do with his hesitation that at that moment the cathedral bell in the town below us began to ring slowly for Vespers. Yes, he hesitated. He a Caylus.
With this I left him, somewhat relieved to find that I had escaped all cross-examination on the score of Madame Marignan. "De Caylus!" I again repeated to myself, as I took my rapid way to the Hotel Dieu. "De Caylus! why, surely, it must have been that evening at Madame de Courcelles'...."
Sometimes I met Monsieur de Caylus, on which occasions my stay was ever of the briefest; but I most frequently found her alone, and then our talk was of books, of art, of culture, of all those high and stirring things that alike move the sympathies of the educated woman and rouse the enthusiasm of the young man.
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