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"Would you would you take what is not freely given?" "I have the hope that when you see that you must give, you will give freely." "If if I make you this promise " "Yes?" I was growing white with eagerness. "You will fulfil your part of the bargain?" "It is a habit of mine, mademoiselle as witnesses the case of Chatellerault." She shivered at the mention of his name.
I held my breath, I think, as I stood in ravished contemplation of that white vision. If this were Lavedan, and that the cold Roxalanne who had sent my bold Chatellerault back to Paris empty-handed then were my task a very welcome one. How little it had weighed with me that I was come to Languedoc to woo a woman bearing the name of Roxalanne de Lavedan I have already shown.
Rec. vol. iii. pp. 50-52. New anxieties Disaffection of the Princes They demand a Reformation in the Government Cunning of the Duc de Bouillon Imprisonment of M. de Vendôme He escapes The Regent suspects the sincerity of Bouillon Conspiracy of the Ducs de Vendôme and de Retz The Duc de Nevers seizes Mézières Recall of M. d'Epernon Marie de Medicis resolves to resign the Regency, but is dissuaded by her Council Treasonable reports Precarious position of the Queen Levy of troops Manifesto of the Prince de Condé Reply of the Regent Death of the Connétable Duc de Montmorency Bassompierre is appointed Colonel-General of the Swiss Guards The march against M. de Condé Marie endeavours to temporize The price of loyalty The Prince de Condé leaves Paris Christening of the Duc d'Anjou and the Princesse Henriette Marie A temporary calm The Ducs de Vendôme and de Retz excite the Burgundians to revolt The Protestants refuse to join their faction They are compelled to lay down their arms The Prince de Condé marches upon Poitiers The Church "military" The prelate and the populace A governor superseded The Prince is compelled to withdraw to Châtellerault He burns down the episcopal palace The Court proceed to Poitou Their reception The Duc de Vendôme makes his submission The States assemble at Nantes Enormities perpetrated by the troops of M. de Vendôme Folly of that Prince Death of the Prince de Conti A bachelor-Benedict A nom de guerre Majority of Louis XIII The Bed of Justice The assembly of the States-General is deferred The King solicits his mother to retain her authority in the Government Meeting of the States The early years of Louis XIII Charles Albert de Luynes His antecedents His ambition His favour with the young King He is made Governor of Amboise.
"This good Chatellerault has lost both heart and head to her." Chatellerault glanced at the speaker with an eye in which anger smouldered. "You have said it," I agreed. "He has fallen her victim, and so his vanity translates her into a compound of perfections. Does such a woman as you have described exist, Comte? Bah!
Then Saint-Eustache, who was engaged in binding up his principal's arm, called to La Fosse. I followed my second with my eyes as he went across to Chatellerault. The Count stood white, his lips compressed, no doubt from the pain his arm was causing him. Then his voice floated across to me as he addressed La Fosse.
While the wager existed I might not ask you to become my wife, lest I should seem to be carrying out the original intention which embarked me upon the business of wooing you, and brought me here to Languedoc. And so my first step was to seek out Chatellerault and deliver him my note of hand for my Picardy possessions, the bulk by far the greater bulk of all my fortune.
So be advised, and make your will without delay, if you would have your heirs enjoy my Picardy chateau." I have seen terror and anger distort men's countenances, but never have I seen aught to compare with the disorder of Chatellerault at that moment. He stamped and raved and fumed.
"It is not for nothing that they call you the Magnificent," he answered, with a fresh bow, insensible to the sting in the tail of my honeyed words. I laughed, and, setting compliments to rest with that, I led him to the table. "Ganymede, a place here for Monsieur le Comte. Gilles, Antoine, see to Monsieur de Chatellerault. Basile, wine for Monsieur le Comte. Bestir there!"
It would behoove me, therefore, to look elsewhere for help and for some one to swear to my identity. "Do you know the name of this King's Commissioner?" I asked. "It is a certain Comte de Chatellerault, a gentleman man said to stand very high in His Majesty's favour." "Chatellerault!" I cried in wondering joy. "You know him?" "Most excellently!" I laughed. "We are very intimately acquainted."
"I should prefer that you name the limit," I answered. He pondered a moment. Then "Will three months suffice you?" he asked. "If it is not done in three months, I will pay," said I. And then Chatellerault did what after all was, I suppose, the only thing that a gentleman might do under the circumstances.
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