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These points, however, were not very useful to the adventurer as yet, for he was absolutely ignorant as to contemporaneous history; but at any rate, the knowledge that the man he personated was English led him to endeavor to modify his Gascon pronunciation, and he gave it an English accent so strange that De Chemerant was far from suspecting that he spoke with a Frenchman.
"Sir, my time is valuable, I must return shortly to Fort Royal," said Chemerant. The lieutenant continued, recklessly, "How! you have forgotten the order I gave you?" "The last one? no, lieutenant." "No, lieutenant! well, repeat it, then; let us hear the order." Then, addressing Chemerant, he said to him, while pointing to his soldier, "He hasn't the memory of a gosling!
In thinking of the fury which must have possessed the soul of De Chemerant, who saw the enterprise which he thought he had so skillfully conducted a complete failure, one understands, without excusing it, the cruelty of his resolution in regard to Croustillac.
The good Chemerant will say, 'You are my prisoner, is it not so?" "Unhappily it is very likely," said Monmouth. "Alas! it is only too true!" said Angela. "Oh! do not speak so, the idea is frightful," cried Angela. "You see well, then, generous madman, the imminent danger to which you are exposed," said the duke to him tenderly.
The officer, who was speaking in a low tone to De Chemerant, saluting Croustillac again, said to him: "Your highness, since you command it, I will not awaken the captain, and I shall have the honor of conducting you to your cabin." Croustillac inclined his head. "Till to-morrow, your highness," said De Chemerant. "Till to-morrow," responded the adventurer.
"But in this case I cannot leave him in the power of De Chemerant." "Oh! it is frightful!" "Never will I consent to again plunge England into a civil war. I would a thousand times prefer prison and death; but to leave you, my God!" "What shall we do, James? What danger does this man run?" "Immense! the possessor of such a state secret." "But then, I must lose you or follow him.
Thus, then, I see no inconvenience in trying whether my horse goes faster than that of the good Chemerant. The good man seems to me plunged in meditation just now; the strand is good and straight. If I should start "Come, then, try start, Polyphème!"
She quitted the direction she had first taken, and in place of keeping close to the wind, altered her course. This maneuver exposed the Unicorn, which during the conference of the duke and De Chemerant had remained behind in the wake of the Chameleon and absolutely in a line with her.
The sound of the struggle had already attracted the attention of the French envoy, and, hearing the cry of Croustillac, he rushed into the room, sword in hand. It would be impossible to depict the stupefaction, the fright of the three when De Chemerant appeared. The duke put his hand upon his sword. Angela fell back into a chair and hid her face in her hands.
Monsieur de Chemerant, seeing the chevalier's hesitation, made use of a more powerful means of forcing him to act conformably to the wishes of the two kings, and said to him, "There remains, your highness, a last communication to make you, and, painful as it is, I must obey my master's orders." "Speak, sir."
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