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"Believe me," said the Baroness, "we are heartily grateful for your Highness' magnanimity. We may, I deduce, depart with your permission?" "Oh, freely, if upon reflection " "I can reflect only when I am sitting down," declared the Baroness. She handed her portmanteau to de Chateauroux, and stepped into the carriage.
And turning toward the Baroness and de Chateauroux, he said: "I may not hinder your departure if you two in truth are swayed by love, since to control that passion is immeasurably beyond the prerogative of kings. Yet I beg you to reflect that the step you contemplate is irrevocable.
"Madness, if you will," de Chateauroux persisted, "yet it is a madness too powerful and sweet to be withstood. Listen, Victoria," and he waved his hand toward the palace, whence music, softened by the distance, came from the lighted windows, "do you not remember? They used to play that air at Staarberg." The Grand Duchess had averted her gaze from him. She did not speak.
He is an honest man and knows how to serve, but he is tiresome, and makes one lose one's patience. I shall send him back, telling him to wait for me in Paris. If he appears at the house, do not be frightened. Latterly the weather has been only so-so. The man in Chateauroux was waiting three days for the piano; yesterday, after receiving your letter, I gave orders that he should be recalled.
" and I shall tell her that there are limits, Pardieu," the Grand Duke emphatically repeated, "that there are limits." "Whereupon, if I am not mistaken, she will reply that there are baronesses." "I shall then appeal to her better nature " "You will find it," said the Baroness, "strangely hard of hearing." " and afterward I shall have de Chateauroux arrested." "On what grounds, your Highness?"
I've forgotten " "Try try and remember. It was the name of a town, wasn't it?" "Yes a name like Chateau " "Chateaubriant? Chateau-Thierry? "No-no " "Chateauroux?" "Yes, that was it Chateauroux " Beautrelet did not wait for her to complete her sentence.
The country is overwhelmed with debt, and is in the hands of unprincipled vagabonds. The king has said that he would govern without ministers; but that only means that he will allow himself to be swayed by favorites. Fleury has gone, and in his place there comes who? Why, the Duchesse de Chateauroux. She is now the minister of France."
No wonder the army was roused to enthusiasm, or that it exclaimed with one voice, "At last we have found a King!" So strong was Louis in his new martial resolve that he actually refused Madame de Chateauroux permission to accompany him.
Few towns are without a hostelry outside the gates for the convenience of knights of the road or those who would avoid the dues, and Chateauroux proved no exception to this rule. A short half-mile from the walls we drew rein before a second encampment raised about a wayside house.
Issoudun stretches north and south, along a hillside which rounds towards the highroad to Chateauroux. At the foot of the hill, a canal, now called the "Riviere forcee" whose waters are taken from the Theols, was constructed in former times, when the town was flourishing, for the use of manufactories or to flood the moats of the rampart.
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