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The master regarded Uncle Ben still dubiously. "But you call yourself Dabney. What makes you think your real name is d'Aubigny?" "That's the way it uster be writ in letters to me in the States. Hold on. I'll show ye."
Thither came Henrietta Maria, with what the pamphleteers called "her Rattle-headed Parliament of Ladies," the beautiful Duchess of Richmond, the merry Mrs. Kirke, and brave Kate D'Aubigny.
After a moment's silence she fixed her eyes on Helen, and said, "You tell me that Colonel D'Aubigny never was a lover never was an admirer of yours?" "Never!" said Helen, low, but very decidedly. Lady Davenant sighed, but did not speak.
Something she wants to say to you, and here he lowered his voice, 'about a locket, and Colonel D'Aubigny. "Excessively frightened, and hearing some one at the door, I answered, 'I do not know, I believe I shall drive to Kensington to-morrow. He bowed delighted, and relieved me from his presence that instant. The moment afterwards General Clarendon came in.
They next settled the order of their match: Humbercourt was to go in front with one hundred archers; a bow-shot behind him Bayard would follow with one hundred men-at-arms, and then Chabannes de la Palisse and d'Aubigny would bring up the rest of their men.
The first was a cousin of Darnley, brought up in France, namely Esme Stuart d'Aubigny, son of John, a brother of Lennox. He had all the accomplishments likely to charm the boy king, now in his fourteenth year. James had hitherto been sternly educated by George Buchanan, more mildly by Peter Young.
"Some words," continued the general, "once fell from Lady Davenant concerning this Colonel D'Aubigny which alarmed me. Cecilia satisfied me that her mother was mistaken. Cecilia solemnly assured me that she had never loved him." The general paused. Helen, conceiving that he waited for and required her opinion, replied, "So I always thought so I often told Lady Davenant."
By-the-way, there is that young nephew to whom madame wrote. Gerard d'Aubigny is his name, is it not?" "Yes, sire." "Make him out a colonel's commission, and give him the next vacancy, Louvois." "A colonel, sire! Why, he is not yet twenty." "Ay, Louvois. Pray, am I the chief of the army, or are you? Take care, Louvois! I have warned you once before.
The passion of Henri IV for this lady was so great that he declared his intention of obtaining a divorce from Marguerite de Valois, for the purpose of making her his wife; a project from which he was dissuaded by D'Aubigny, who represented that the contempt which could not fail to be felt by the French for a monarch who had degraded himself by an alliance with his mistress, would inevitably deprive him of the throne in the event of the death of Henri III and the Duc d'Alençon.
I inquired, bobbing my head to and fro before the mirror, the better to conceal my interest in the venture I was making. "I don't like any of them but D'Aubigny," returned Isabella. "She charges twice what La Mole does " Twice! What are these girls' purses made of, or rather their father's! "But she has the chic we are accustomed to see in French millinery. I shall never go anywhere else."
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