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"'And that, I am convinced, said Fidèle, 'is nothing more nor less than one of those many windows that give light to the monsters of the under-earth. "'Little imbecile! In some places this window is six hundred feet thick. "'So? she said. 'That is because their dim eyes could not endure the full light of the sun.
Seated on my knees, she took off one of her garters while I was unclasping the other, and here are the two lines which I found embroidered on them, and which I ought to have read before offering them to her: 'En voyant chaque jour le bijou de ma belle, Vous lui direz qu'Amour veut qu'il lui soit fidele. Those verses, rather free I must confess, struck me as very comic.
However, in matters of less importance, I desire to be 'de vos secrets le fidele depositaire'. Trust me with the general turn and color of your amusements at Paris. Is it 'le fracas du grand monde, comedies, bals, operas, cour, etc.? Or is it 'des petites societes, moins bruyantes, mais pas pour cela moins agreables'? Where are you the most 'etabli'? Where are you 'le petit Stanhope?
'Persuade que vous trouverez, Milord, dans cette marque flatteuse de la bienveillance du Roi, une preuve du prix que Sa Majeste attache au service important que, suivant les intentions toujours si amicales de l'Angleterre, Son ancienne et fidele alliee, vous avez rendu a Son Gouvernement dans les circonstances penibles ou il s'est trouve, je m'empresse de vous envoyer ci-joint la decoration qui vous est destinee.
As Marie Antoinette lay sleepless upon her bed in the night that followed this vain attempt at flight, and was torturing herself with anxious doubts whether Fidele had fallen a victim to his devotion, suddenly the tones of a huntsman's horn broke the silence; Marie Antoinette raised herself up and listened.
In a twinkling we were over. Fidèle no, a woman never falls. "'For all this, she says, shaking her head, 'I maintain that a guide here is a sinecurist. "Well, we made the passage safely, and toiled up the steep, loose moraine beyond to find the track over which was harder than crossing the glacier. This tavern, too, was shut and dismal. It did not matter.
"I see you are angry with me," said the timid Imogen; "but, sirs, if you kill me for my fault, know that I should have died if I had not made it." "Whither are you bound," asked Bellarius, "and what is your name?" "Fidele is my name," answered Imogen.
That little bottle, which a queen once carried, is my most precious possession, and yet I would part with that if I could save the life of her son, happy if I could but retain the hallowed paper on which the queen's hand wrote the word 'Fidele. Yes, you poor, pitiable son of kings, I am Fidele, I am Toulan, at whom you have so often laughed when he played with you in your prison."
But what pardon! he showed her to me with her feet chained to a block of wood, and an iron collar with three hooks fastened round her neck. "'From thence Fidele, still on the scent, led me up the precipice of the Black River, where he again stopped and barked with all his might. This was on the brink of a spring, near a fallen palm tree, and close to a fire which was still smoking.
Take this little gold smelling- bottle. The queen gave it to me, and upon the bit of paper that lies within it Marie Antoinette wrote with her own hand, 'Remembrancer for Fidele. Fiddle is the title of honor which my queen has given me for the little service which I have been able to do for her.
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