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She spoke quite softly and composedly, but I guessed readily that she had sent for me that she might have a friend to whom to pour out her overcharged heart. "Gaston Cheverny," was all I could say, meaning that he must be the source of her misery. "There is no fault at all to be found with my husband. He is kindness and devotion itself.
His face, too, was glowing, and he said: "You see, there was nothing to be done but that we should be married. We had, so to speak, no choice." To this I answered: "Madame Cheverny gave another reason to me; she said it was because she loved you so much she could not let you go away unpledged to her."
It was no more likely to be used than a babe's swaddling clothes, but it looked tragic, and I saw that young Cheverny was bent upon being as tragic as possible, under the circumstances. At the appointed time we were at the rendezvous. The Temple gardens were remote and retired, and at this hour of the night were perfectly deserted, not even a watchman being about.
Francezka did not find out her mistake until the candles were again alight, and then, instead of laughing, was strangely vexed and offended at the pleasantry played upon her. Regnard Cheverny, as well as Gaston, was fond of books, and on that ground he could hold his own with Francezka.
It was by no means improbable that Gaston Cheverny, wandering about in his French uniform, and dazed with his wound, might have fallen in with Austrians, who would send him away with other chance prisoners.
She posted large rewards for news of Gaston Cheverny, but not one single person appeared to claim them. Philipsburg fell on the eighteenth of July. As soon as this was accomplished the campaign became perfunctory.
It is only twelve miles from the highroad between Brussels and Paris. I would not be boastful, but it is the charmingest place, at the foot of the Ardennes. I have not seen it since I was a child. Monsieur Gaston Cheverny remembers it better than I. He says he even remembers me, a little child but six years old, and so did Monsieur Regnard Cheverny tell me that at Paris last year.
Gaston Cheverny was a prime favorite of hers, having won her good will by many warm protestations of his devotion to what she called the cause of England's rightful king; a devotion which I think Gaston Cheverny very much exaggerated for purposes of his own. We spent a pleasant hour at supper. Old Peter directed the servants who waited on us.
My master was at Philipsburg with his command when I again saw him. He was assisting the Duke of Berwick in the siege of that important place. I did not need to ask him if there was any news of Gaston Cheverny; I saw at the first glance there was none. The siege went on steadily. We had in our army too many "red heels" and tourlourous.
When we were some miles on our way, Count Saxe turned his head, and seeing Gaston Cheverny with a rueful face, riding among the suite, asked me the cause; for Gaston had a natural gaiety of heart, very becoming to a soldier. I told Count Saxe of the ill news Gaston had just received.
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