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Updated: May 1, 2025
On learning from d'Artagnon that Etienne was in love with the daughter of a miserable physician, he was only the more determined to carry out the marriage. What could such a man comprehend of love, he who had let his own wife die beside him without understanding a single sigh of her heart?
"He is here!" cried the young girl; "let me go now and comfort him." "I shall come for your answer to-morrow," said the baron. "I will consult my father," she replied. "You will not see him again. I have received orders to arrest him and send him in chains, under escort, to Rouen," said d'Artagnon, leaving Gabrielle dumb with terror.
The duke saw, through the half-opened door, the three ladies and d'Artagnon. At that crucial moment Etienne, whose sense of hearing was acute, heard in the cardinal's library poor Gabrielle's voice, singing, to let her lover know she was there, "Ermine hath not Her pureness; The lily not her whiteness."
The Baron d'Artagnon, lieutenant of his company of men-at-arms, possessed his utmost confidence.
"Mother!" added Etienne, "who art in heaven, obtain from the Virgin that if we cannot Gabrielle and I be happy here below we may at least die together, and without suffering. Call us, and we will go to thee." Then, having recited their evening prayers, Gabrielle related her interview with Baron d'Artagnon.
The spy then watched the cottage, saw the physician's daughter, and fell in love with her. Beauvouloir he knew was rich. The duke would be furious at the man's audacity. On those foundations the Baron d'Artagnon erected the edifice of his fortunes.
Witness Scrooge, Pecksniff, Mark Tapley, Pickwick, Sam Weller and his father, created by Dickens; the four musketeers, especially D'Artagnon, of Dumas; Amelia and Rebecca Sharp, George, and the Major of Thackeray; Jane Austen's heroines and George Eliot's men and women; the narrators in the famous Canterbury Inn, the soldiers of Kipling, the Shylocks, Macbeths, Rosalinds and Falstaffs of the greatest dramatist; the thousand and one fictitious and yet real figures of literature.
The duke had already sent to his son, ordering him to be present in the salon. When the company entered it, d'Artagnon saw by the downcast look on Etienne's face that as yet he did not know of Gabrielle's escape. "This is my son," said the old duke, taking Etienne by the hand and presenting him to the ladies. Etienne bowed without uttering a word.
Etienne followed his father. The three ladies, stirred with a curiosity that was shared by Baron d'Artagnon, walked about the great salon in a manner to group themselves finally near the door of the bedroom, which the duke had left partially open.
At the sound of her steps the man arose and came toward her; this had frightened her, and she gave the cry. The presence and aspect of the Baron d'Artagnon amply justified the fear thus inspired in the young girl's breast. "Are you the daughter of Beauvouloir, monseigneur's physician?" asked the baron when Gabrielle's first alarm had subsided. "Yes, monsieur."
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