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Updated: June 5, 2025
M. la Guesle, who had gone in to the presence, came out again and stood near me talking with the Jacobin, whose pale nervous face and hasty movements reminded me somehow of Simon Fleix. The monk held a letter or petition in his hand, and appeared to be getting it by heart, for his lips moved continually.
No one was to be seen, Tormented by doubts, I lifted up my voice and called on them in turn; first on mademoiselle, then on Simon Fleix. In vain; I got no answer. High up above me I saw, as I stood back a little, lights moving in the house I had left; and the suspicion that, after all, the enemy had foiled me grew upon me.
I asked Simon Fleix no more questions, save when the priest might be looked for again which he could not tell me and whether he would know him again to which he answered, 'Yes. But, wrapping myself in my cloak, I lay down by the fire and pondered long and sadly. So, while I had been pinching there, my mother had been starving here. She had deceived me, and I her.
There remained besides Simon Fleix only Maignan's three men from Rosny; but the state in which our affairs now stood enabled us to make light of this.
A very learned person once told me that the troubles of these times bred four kinds of men, who were much to be compassionated: fanatics on the one side or the other, who lost sight of all else in the intensity of their faith; men who, like Simon Fleix, sought desperately after something to believe, and found it not; and lastly, scoffers, who, believing in nothing, looked on all religion as a mockery.
I reached the end of the lane, I ran to the very foot; of the ramparts, I looked right and left. In vain. The place was dark, silent, deserted. I called 'Simon! Simon! Simon Fleix! but my only answer was the soughing of the wind in the eaves, and the slow tones of the convent-bell striking Six.
He sent also a man to my stable Simon Fleix having disappeared in the confusion for the Cid, and was in the act of inquiring whether I needed anything else, when a woman slipped through the knot of horsemen who surrounded us as we stood in the doorway of the house, and, throwing herself upon me, grasped me by the arm. It was Fanchette.
Awaking early I found on a stool beside my clothes, a purse of gold containing a hundred crowns; and a youth presently entering to ask me if I lacked anything, I had at first some difficulty in recognising Simon Fleix, so sprucely was the lad dressed, in a mode resembling Maignan's.
Let us sit down and eat. It is no good jumping in the dark, or meeting troubles half way. We were not through our meal, however, Simon Fleix waiting on us with a pale face, when Maignan came in again from the dark room. 'My lord, he said quietly, 'three men have appeared. Two of them remain twenty paces away.
For similar reasons I rejected the idea of applying to the king; and this exhausting the list of those on whom I had any claim, I found myself thrown on my own resources, which seemed limited my wits failing me at this pinch to my sword and Simon Fleix.
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