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And the Grand Duchess answered, quietly, "It shall be as you will." More lately, while the Grand Duke and the Baroness craned their necks, and de Chateauroux bent, very slowly, over her upturned lips, the Grand Duchess struggled from him, saying, "Hark, Philippe! for I heard some one something stirring " "It was the wind, dear heart." "Hasten! I am afraid! Oh, it is madness to wait here!"
During this time Versailles was the theatre of many extraordinary scenes. Louis XV was born here but did not take up his residence here until after he was of age. Here it was that his favourites Madame de Chateauroux, Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry found themselves most at home.
Credit was given to the Duchess of Chateauroux, Louis XV.'s new favorite, for having excited this warlike ardor in the king. Ypres and Menin had already surrendered after a few days' open trenches; siege had just been laid to Furnes. Marshal Noailles had proposed to move up the king's household troops in order to make an impression upon the enemy.
We had thought that Bezers when joined there by his troopers would not be able to get relays; and that on this account we might by travelling post overtake him; and possibly slip by him between that place and Paris. But we learned at Chateauroux that his troop had received fresh orders to go to Orleans and await him there; the result being that he was able to push forward with relays so far.
"That fool of a girl never told me, in all these seven years, a word about the sister and nephews!" cried Max, turning from the rue de la Marmouse into the rue l'Avenier. "Seven hundred and fifty thousand francs placed with different notaries at Bourges, and Vierzon, and Chateauroux, can't be turned into money and put into the Funds in a week, without everybody knowing it in this gossiping place!
"Hein?" muttered the Grand Duke. "We are no longer boy and girl," the Grand Duchess said. "All that lies behind us. It was a dream a foolish dream which we must forget." "Can you in truth forget?" de Chateauroux demanded, "can you forget it all, Victoria? forget that night a Gnestadt, when you confessed you loved me? forget that day at Staarberg, when we were lost in the palace gardens?"
"Why, precisely, your Highness." "And de Chateauroux helped you?" "In effect, yes, your Highness." "And the Grand Duchess knew?" "The Grand Duchess suggested it, your Highness, the moment that she knew you thought of eloping." "And I, who tricked Gaston !"
He had seen tears in those admirable eyes before he turned his back to her. "Monsieur de Chateauroux," he called, "I find the lady is adamant. I wish you a pleasant journey." He held open the door of the carriage for de Chateauroux to enter. "You will forgive us, your Highness?" asked the latter. "You will forget?" murmured the Baroness. "I shall do both," said the Grand Duke.
"Your Highness!" cried de Chateauroux, in astonishment. "Ludovicus," said the Grand Duke, "Dei gratia Archi Dux Noumariae, Princeps Gatinensis, and so on." And de Chateauroux caressed his chin. "I did not know," said the Grand Duke, "that you were such an early riser. Or perhaps," he continued, "you are late in retiring. Fy, fy, monsieur! you must be more careful!
He employed Pondeveyle to make a song on the Pompadour: it was clever and bitter, and did not spare even Majesty. This was Maurepas absurd enough to sing at supper at Versailles. Banishment ensued; and lest he should ever be restored, the mistress persuaded the King that he had poisoned her predecessor Madame de Chateauroux.
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