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Satisfied with this as yet vague plan of entertainment, he began at once making his arrangements for departure; meanwhile, the Princesse D'Agramont riding gracefully through the Bois on her beautiful Arab, was amusing herself with her thoughts, and weighing the PROS and CONS of the different lives of her friends, without giving the slightest consideration to her own.
"Does Sylvie in all her new happiness, actually think of me so much and so often?" "Indeed she does!" replied the Princess D'Agramont. "Chere enfant, you must not look at all the world through the cloud of one sorrow! We all love you! we are all anxious to see you quite yourself again!"
Sylvie was kneeling, and her face was hidden. Angela was seated, and her eyes, full of the radiance of thought and dreaming genius, were fixed on the altar. Gradually he moved up till he reached the rough bench where they were all together the Princesse D'Agramont saw him at once, and signed to him to take a vacant place next to Sylvie.
With a light salute to all present he re-entered his carriage and was driven away and Aubrey Leigh led Prince Sovrani into his own library where, when he was seated, they all waited upon him eagerly, the fair Sylvie chafing his cold hands, and the Princesse D'Agramont practically making him drink a glass of good wine.
"There is nothing to explain!" and the pretty Princesse gave him her hand with a beneficent air, "I am very pleased with you. You are what the English call 'good boy'! Now I am going to see the Abbe and place the Chateau D'Agramont at his disposal while he is waiting to be excommunicated, for of course he will be excommunicated " "What does it matter! Who cares?" said the Marquis recklessly.
And for that reason I am now inclined to like Abbe Vergniaud whom I never liked before. He has turned honest! To-day indeed he has been as straightforward as if he were not a man at all! and I admire him for it. He and his son will be my guests at the Chateau D'Agramont."
"Carissima mia, why did you not introduce the Princesse D'Agramont to Mr. Leigh rather than the Comtesse Hermenstein?
"To lead!" answered Cyrillon with a passionate gesture, "To gather the straying thoughts of men into one burning focus and turn THAT fire on the world!" They were all silent for a minute then the Princesse D'Agramont spoke again "But Pardon me! Then you were about to destroy all your own chances of the future in your wild impulse of this morning?" "Oh, Madame, it was no wild impulse!
"Would that not take a century to explain?" said the silvery voice of the Princesse D'Agramont, who entered with Angela at that moment, and made her deep obeisance before the Cardinal, glancing inquisitively as she did so at Manuel who still stood resting against the prelate's chair, "Pardon our abrupt appearance, Monseigneur, but Angela and I are moved by the spirit of curiosity! -and if we are swept out of the Church like straws before the wind for our impertinence, we care not!
"I am charmed!" said the Princesse D'Agramont, "Good fortune really seems to favour me for once, for in the space of a fortnight I have met two of the most distinguished men of the time, 'Gys Grandit', and Aubrey Leigh!" Aubrey bowed. "You are too kind, Madame! Grandit and I have been friends for some years, though we have never seen each other since I parted from him in Touraine.
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