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Updated: June 18, 2025
"Gentlemen," said the future Emperor, who still wore the dress of the First Consul, "we have received from the Sieurs de Simeuse and d'Hauteserre, officers in the army of the Prince de Conde, a request to be allowed to re-enter France." "They are here now," said Fouche. "Like many others whom I meet in Paris," remarked Talleyrand.
If they had only been willing to serve in the army they would have reached the higher grades by this time, and could now have married to advantage. Instead of that, all my plans are scattered to the winds!" "How can you," said his wife, "think of their interests when it is a question of their honor and their lives?" "Monsieur d'Hauteserre thinks of everything," said the marquis.
She nursed Madame d'Hauteserre and went daily to the prison, saying openly that she would marry one of the cousins when they were taken to the galleys. "To the galleys!" cried Bordin, "Mademoiselle! our first endeavor must be to wring their pardon from the Emperor." "Their pardon! from a Bonaparte?" cried Laurence in horror.
Her grave demeanor, now lapsing into apparent stolidity, can be readily understood. Monsieur d'Hauteserre proved an upright and most careful guardian. Under his administration Cinq-Cygne became a sort of farm.
She revered the nobility; and knew well how to preserve her own dignity by giving to persons of noble birth the respect and deference that were due to them. This little company was a god-send to Madame d'Hauteserre, who had not, like her husband, rural occupations, nor, like Laurence, the tonic of hatred, to enable her to bear the dulness of a retired life.
Such desecration excited both fear and indignation among the faithful servants of the house, who still stood motionless about the salon. Monsieur d'Hauteserre exchanged looks of commiseration with his wife and Mademoiselle Goujet. A species of horrible curiosity kept every one on the qui vive.
He intended to buy back some of the lost estate, and to utilize all the out-buildings of the chateau by making a second farm and managing it himself. Life at the chateau had thus become during the last two years prosperous and almost happy. Monsieur d'Hauteserre was off at daybreaks to overlook his laborers, for he employed them in all weathers.
What young girl of twenty-three would not have been, as Laurence was, proud to play the part of Destiny? and who would not have felt, as she did, a sense of compassion for those whom she felt to be so far below her in loyalty? "She sleeps," said the abbe. "I have never seen her so wearied." "Durieu tells me her mare is almost foundered," remarked Madame d'Hauteserre.
You are about to receive a domiciliary visit. If your sons are here tell them to escape, and the Simeuse brothers too, if they are with them." "My sons!" exclaimed Madame d'Hauteserre, stupefied. "We have seen no one," said Monsieur d'Hauteserre. "So much the better," said Goulard; "but I care too much for the Cinq-Cygne and Simeuse families to let any harm come to them. Listen to me.
Chance made its calculations with as much cleverness as Mademoiselle de Cinq-Cygne made hers. The uneasiness of Monsieur and Madame d'Hauteserre at the idea of keeping eleven hundred thousand francs in gold in a lonely chateau on the borders of a forest was likely to be so great that their sons advised they should know nothing about it.
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