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Updated: June 13, 2025
All would know that the terms immaterial something, do in very truth mean nothing. Count de Caylus died as became a man convinced that soul is not an entity, and that upon the dissolution of our 'earthly tabernacle, the particles composing it cease to perform vital functions, and return to the shoreless ocean of Eternal Being.
"If it were merely necessary to kill the Duke of Nevers to gratify the hate of any private enemy, one place would do as well as another, and we might take him any time on his way here, instead of waiting till the precise moment when he enters the moat of Caylus.
The sun had not yet risen above the hills when we three with a single servant behind us drew rein at the end of the valley; and easing our horses on the ascent, turned in the saddle to take a last look at Caylus at the huddled grey town, and the towers above it. A little thoughtful we all were, I think. The times were rough and our errand was serious.
But he remembered the night in the moat of Caylus, he remembered the purpose of long years, he remembered his duty, he remembered his honor, and he grappled with the dragon of passion, with the dragon of desire. Very calmly he touched for a moment, with caressing hand, the hair of Gabrielle. Very quietly he spoke. "We are taking my fairy tale too gravely," he said.
Just at the moment when Gonzague believed his schemes to be at their best and his fortunes to be nearing their top, he was suddenly threatened with the renewal of the old terror that had been kept at bay through all the years that had passed since the night of Caylus.
For Monsieur Peyrolles knew as well as his master all about that night at Caylus seventeen years before, and could, if he chose but he never did choose have told exactly how the Duke de Nevers came to his death, and how the child of Nevers disappeared, and how it was that the battered survivors of a little army of bravos had been overawed by the muskets of a company of Free Companions.
Count de Caylus was a Materialist, and no Materialist can consistently feel the least alarm at the approach of what superstitionists have every reason to consider the 'king of terrors. Believers in the reality of immaterial existence cannot be 'proper' Materialists.
The Prince, out of grateful remembrance of the Princess Sabella's first gift to him bestowed the right of bearing her name upon the most beautiful of the martens, and that is why they are called sables to this day. Comte de Caylus. Once upon a time there lived a young man named Rosimond, who was as good and handsome as his elder brother Bramintho was ugly and wicked.
She mentioned the "Recollections of Madame de Caylus," which were, however, not then printed; and pressed me so much to produce a similar work, that I have taken advantage of a few leisure moments to write this, which I intend to give her, in order that she may arrange it and correct the style.
No one supposes that I had any other motive, or any deeper vengeance not even De Caylus! I have not compromised her by word or deed. If I shoot him, I free her without a breath of scandal. If I fall " His voice failed, and we were both silent for some moments We were now past the Barrier, and speeding on rapidly towards the open country.
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