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Angela, seeing the troubled manner of her husband, said to him, "My God! what ails you?" "I can no longer hesitate," replied Monmouth, "I must tell De Chemerant the whole truth." "Heavens, James! what are you saying?" "You wish to be viceroy, your highness?" interposed Croustillac. "No, sir, I desire to prevent your ruining yourself on my account.
"You may be certain, baron," said Chemerant, cordially pressing his hand, "that the king will know all and it will not be my fault if you are not rewarded as you deserve." Thus saying, Chemerant gave the order to put off. "If the king is to know all he will be much ahead of me," said the baron, slowly returning to his house.
"Honors to-morrow honors to-morrow," said Croustillac; "the hour of these frivolities always comes soon enough." Chemerant drew aside to allow the Gascon to mount the ladder first. The latter breathed freely again on seeing on deck only an officer of marines, who received him with bared head and a profoundly respectful air.
Although he did not doubt that the Gascon was the veritable Duke of Monmouth, the conduct of the duchess seemed so strange to him, the manners and language of Croustillac, although very skillfully adapted to his rôle, were sometimes so redolent of the adventurer, that without the aid of the evident proofs which should demonstrate to him the identity of the person of the duke, De Chemerant would have conceived some suspicions.
"We are not ingrates. As soon as the duke is safe, we shall not leave you in the power of Chemerant, and " "Here is Mirette; let us resume our rôle," cried Croustillac, interrupting the duchess. Mirette entered, followed by the slave, carrying in her hand Croustillac's old sword; a soldier bore the basket containing the clothes.
As for Rutler, his arrest by De Chemerant, the arrival of the envoy from France at Devil's Cliff, far from shaking his conviction in respect to Croustillac, had confirmed it; thus, when De Chemerant came to question him, in announcing to him that he was not to be shot, the colonel, on his part unwittingly, concurred in giving still more authority to the false rôle of the adventurer.
You have come to seek James, Duke of Monmouth, in order to raise a standard for sedition; the standard is broken; take up the corpse, sir. It is I, Rutler, colonel in the service of King William, whom God preserve, who has committed this murder." "'Unhappy man, exclaimed De Chemerant. "'I glory in this murder, replied the colonel.
"And I should like well to see if, on his renown alone, and on our guarantee, they would not love him as much as we love him. This recalls to me that once I fought my friend Dick Dudley because he vowed he loved me a little more than our James!" "The fact is, my lord," said De Chemerant, "that few princes are capable of inspiring such enthusiasm simply by their renown."
Monsieur De Chemerant being a witness to my culpable intimacy with Captain Whirlwind, you could not, you who are passing as the Duke of Monmouth, take with you a woman, who, in the eyes of the French envoy, is as culpable as I would appear to him as culpable as I am." "You acknowledge it, then, madame?" "Yes, and again yes, sir!
The litter in which Monmouth was shut up arrived on the bank, and was quickly followed by that containing Angela. The soldiers ranged themselves along the landing. Meanwhile," said the chevalier all at once, "wait I have an idea!" Chemerant and Angela gazed at Croustillac with surprise.
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