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Then again the voice, hesitatingly, saying, 'Monsieur! Clement could not hold the same icy countenance as Virginie; he turned his head with an impatient gesture of disgust; but even that emboldened the man. "'Monsieur, do ask mademoiselle to listen to me, just two words. "'Mademoiselle de Crequy only listens to whom she chooses. Very haughtily my Clement would say that, I am sure.
My Clement! said she, reproachfully. "'Ask him, said she, turning to Jacques, suddenly, 'if he can save Monsieur de Crequy as well, if he can? O Clement, we might escape to England; we are but young. And she hid her face on his shoulder. "Jacques returned to the stranger, and asked him Virginie's question.
This answer only increased the eagerness of the Queen-mother; nevertheless, previously to seeking him in person, she requested M. de Créquy, the Duc de la Force, Bassompierre, and Rambure to go to his house in disguise, in order to ascertain whether he were indeed worthy of the reputation by which he had been preceded.
At last he wearied out the old woman, and, frightened alike of herself and of him, she told him all, that Mam'selle Cannes was Mademoiselle Virginie de Crequy, daughter of the Count of that name. Who was the Count? Younger brother of the Marquis. Where was the Marquis? Dead long ago, leaving a widow and child. A son? Yes, a son. Where was he?
Then, making him lean on her, they marched out towards the Place de la Greve. "Jacques was free now. He had told Morin how fruitless his efforts at persuasion had been; and scarcely caring to note the effect of his information upon the man, he had devoted himself to watching Monsieur and Mademoiselle de Crequy. And now he followed them to the Place de la Greve.
Monsieur de Crequy and the gardener found themselves disputing with interest in which chimney of the stack the starling used to build, the starling whose nest Clement sent to Urian, you remember, and discussing the merits of different espalier- pears which grew, and may grow still, in the old garden of the Hotel de Crequy. Towards morning both fell asleep. The old man wakened first.
But to Mademoiselle de Crequy, why you don't know the difference! Those people the old nobility I mean why they don't know a man from a dog, out of their own rank! And no wonder, for the young gentlemen of quality are treated differently to us from their very birth. If she had you to-morrow, you would be miserable. Let me alone for knowing the aristocracy.
So I rather fell in with his wish, and encouraged him to think how best and most prudently it might be fulfilled; never doubting, as I have said, that he and his cousin were troth-plighted. "But when I went to Madame de Crequy after he had imparted his, or rather our plan to her I found out my mistake.
And so Madame de Crequy listened, and questioned, and learnt nothing decided, until one day she surprised Clement with the note in his hand, of which she remembered the stinging words so well, in which Virginie had said, in reply to a proposal Clement had sent her through her father, that 'When she married she married a man, not a petit-maitre.
But when I saw him sad, depressed, nay, hopeless going about like one oppressed by a heavy dream which he cannot shake off; caring neither to eat, drink, nor sleep, yet bearing all with silent dignity, and even trying to force a poor, faint smile when he caught my anxious eyes; I turned round again, and wondered how Madame de Crequy could resist this mute pleading of her son's altered appearance.
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