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"I have seen a miniature of Virginie, which a French lady of quality happened to have in her possession at the time of her flight from Paris, and which she brought with her to England unwittingly; for it belonged to the Count de Crequy, with whom she was slightly acquainted.
"'Desolate! my mother! and the Countess Ludlow stands there! "'Pardon, madame! But all the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and a desert place to a mother when her only child is absent. And you, Clement, would leave me for this Virginie, this degenerate De Crequy, tainted with the atheism of the Encyclopedistes!
"She laughed at my speech, and was about to reply, but stopped, for at that moment the curtain lifted, and the King entered the room. He seemed in the best of spirits; nothing affects him for long. "'Bon jour, Le Brusquet! He gave me his hand to kiss. 'What news have you brought me this morning? "'A bagful, sire, for I supped with Créquy over-night.
"'Dear Madame de Crequy, said I, 'he will return safely to us; every precaution shall be taken, that either he or you, or my lord, or Monkshaven can think of; but he cannot leave a girl his nearest relation save you his betrothed, is she not? "'His betrothed! cried she, now at the utmost pitch of her excitement. 'Virginie betrothed to Clement? no! thank heaven, not so bad as that!
She knew that my words were vain and idle, and had no root in my belief; as well as I did myself. "I was very thankful when Medlicott came in with Madame's breakfast, and gave me an excuse for leaving. "But I think that conversation made me feel more anxious and impatient than ever. I felt almost pledged to Madame de Crequy for the fulfilment of the vision I had held out.
Flechier, as I knew, earned a very fair livelihood by going about to dress salads for dinner parties. His compatriot, Le Febvre, had begun to give a few lessons as a dancing-master. One of them took the other home to his lodgings; and there, when their most immediate personal adventures had been hastily talked over, came the inquiry from Flechier as to Monsieur de Crequy
But here some old man lived, on whose fidelity Clement thought that he might rely. I am not sure if he had not been gardener in those very gardens behind the Hotel Crequy where Clement and Urian used to play together years before.
The Count had had some interest in the management of the De Crequy property during her son's minority.
"At length the intendant of the De Crequy estates the old man, you will remember, whose information respecting Virginie de Crequy first gave Clement the desire to return to Paris, came to St. James's Square, and begged to speak to me. I made haste to go down to him in the housekeeper's room, sooner than that he should be ushered into mine, for fear of madame hearing any sound.
Encouraged by so facile a success, the Italian adventurer was, however, by no means disposed to permit even this coveted dignity to satisfy his ambition, and through the same agency he ere long became Governor of Péronne, Roye, and Montdidier, which he purchased from M. de Créquy for the sum of forty thousand crowns.
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