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But what piqued her most was, to find details exaggerating the authority of D'Aubigny, and a statement to the effect that it was generally believed she had married him. Her letter and its enclosure reached the King at a very inopportune moment.
Lady Cecilia saw at once the whole dreadful danger her own letters to Colonel D'Aubigny they must he! How could they have got them? They would be seen by her husband published to the whole world if the general found out they were hers, he would cast her off for ever. If they were believed to be Helen's Helen was undone, sacrificed to her folly, her cowardice.
These dispositions were scarcely made when d'Aubigny, having passed the Volturno, approached to lay siege to Capua, and invested the town on both sides of the river.
The instant she cast her eyes on that much-read paper, she saw the name of Colonel D'Aubigny; all the rest swam before her eyes. Lady Castlefort, without looking up from her writing, asked What day of the month? Cecilia could not answer, but recalled to herself by the sound of the voice, she now tried to read she scarcely read the words, but some way took the sense into her mind at a glance.
She hinted that she knew Colonel D'Aubigny had never been your lover, and ended by saying she had not the locket with her; and though I made her understand that the general would never allow me to receive her at my own house, yet she 'hoped I could manage an introduction for her to some of my friends, and that she would bring the locket on Monday, if I would in the mean time try, at least with Lady Emily Greville and Mrs.
He was piqued when, in the midst of something he had wonderfully exerted himself to say, he observed that her attention was distracted by a gentleman opposite, who had just returned from the Continent, and who, among other pieces of news, marriages and deaths of English abroad, mentioned that "poor D'Aubigny" was at last dead.
The net gain in the business fell to d'Aubigny; he received for his trouble as a negotiator, and for his constancy in another way, the manor of Chanteloup, revealed the motive of its construction yet an enigma to everybody in France, says Saint Simon installed himself therein, and, for the rest, made himself loved and esteemed there.
On another occasion, Louville and the Duke de Medina-Coeli entering the apartments of Madame des Ursins, into which she ushered them in order that they might talk more unrestrainedly, D'Aubigny who was installed at the other end, seeing only the Princess and believing her to be alone, began to apostrophise her in terms of very rude and coarse familiarity, which threw all present into confusion.
"You will find, madame," said he sternly, "that members of my faith have not only stood around the throne of France, but have even seated themselves upon it." "God has for His own all-wise purposes permitted it, and none should know it better than I, whose grandsire, Theodore d'Aubigny, did so much to place a crown upon the head of the great Henry.
"Then make no wrong out of nothing," cried Helen. "If you break confidence with your husband, that confidence will never, never unite again your mother says so." "My mother!" cried Cecilia: "Good heavens! so she does suspect? tell me, Helen, tell me what she suspects." "That you did not at first before you were married, tell the general the whole truth about Colonel D'Aubigny."
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