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His account against the assassins of Caylus was being slowly paid; but never had any item of that account been annulled with less regret. The others Staupitz, Saldagno, Pinto, and the rest had been ruffianly creatures enough, but there was a kind of honesty, a measure of courage in their ruffianism.
They were married one year ago in the chapel of Caylus, and the only witnesses were Louis de Gonzague and his factotum, Monsieur Peyrolles, who has summoned us to this tryst." "Why were they secretly married?" asked the amorous Passepoil. Æsop answered him: "An old family feud between the houses of Nevers and Caylus. The marquis would rather kill his daughter than let her marry Louis de Nevers.
From that time she was the constant companion of Mme. de Maintenon, until the king's death, when she returned to Paris; at that place her salon became an intellectual centre, and there the traditions of the seventeenth century were perpetuated. Sainte-Beuve said that Mme. de Caylus perfectly exemplified what was called urbanity—"politeness in speech and accent as well as in esprit."
And so we clattered up the steep street of Caylus with a pleasant melancholy upon us, and passed, not without a more serious thought, the gloomy, frowning portals, all barred and shuttered, of the House of the Wolf, and under the very window, sombre and vacant, from which Bezers had incited the rabble in their attack on Pavannes' courier. We had gone by day, and we came back by night.
He wished to please Madame de Maintenon. To refuse was impossible for a courtier, and the commission was delicate for a man who, like him, had a great reputation to sustain. At last he found in the subject of Esther all that was necessary to please the Court. So far Mademoiselle de Caylus.
"Do you leave Francis and another at the gate, Gil. Marie, keep within sight, lad. And let Croisette stay with me." These preparations made and they took up scarcely a moment I met the Vidame at the head of the ramp. "Mademoiselle de Caylus," I said, bowing, "is, I regret to say, indisposed to-day, Vidame." "She will not see me?" he asked, eyeing me very unpleasantly.
The next moment I saw him spring into the cabriolet, take his place beside Monsieur de Simoncourt, and drive away, with Bijou following at a pace that might almost have tried a greyhound. "My cousin, De Caylus, has lately returned from Algiers on leave of absence," said Madame de Courcelles, after a few moments of awkward silence, during which I had not known what to say.
"That was not in the calculations of Racine," says Madame de Caylus in her Souvenirs. He wrote Esther. "Madame de Maintenon was charmed with the conception and the execution," says Madame de La Fayette; "the play represented in some sort the fall of Madame de Montespan and her own elevation; all the difference was that Esther was a little younger, and less particular in the matter of piety.
The exile of Caylus afterwards made his fortune. We had another instance, about this time, of the perfidy of Harlay.
They were talking of the war in Algiers, and especially of the gallantry of a certain Vicomte de Caylus, in whose deeds they seemed to take a more than ordinary interest. "Rode single-handed right through the enemy's camp," said a bronzed, elderly man, with a short, gray beard. "And escaped without a scratch," added another, with a tiny red ribbon at his button-hole.
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