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He had been wandering about the House of Commons and its appurtenances all day, holding colloquies with this person and that, unable to see his way to come to any decision. And, as was now usual, he and Fontenoy had been engaged in steering out of each other's way as much as possible. As he went upstairs he noticed a letter lying on the step.
She could not hope for a moment that any act of his would be likely to stand between Maxwell and defeat. He had not talked of his adventures to Fontenoy would rather, indeed, that Fontenoy knew nothing of them. But he and she knew that Fontenoy, so far, had little to fear from them. And yet she had not turned from him.
George II. of England held with Maria Theresa, and gained a victory over the French at Dettingen, in 1744. Louis XV. then joined his army, and the battle of Fontenoy, in 1745, was one of the rare victories of France over England. Another victory followed at Laufeldt, but elsewhere France had had heavy losses, and in 1748, after the death of Charles VII., peace was made at Aix-la-Chapelle.
"Do you know whether Lord Fontenoy has any personal knowledge of the trades he was speaking about?" she said, in her rich eager voice; "that is what I want so much to find out." George was nettled by both the question and the manner. "I regard Fontenoy as a very competent person," he said drily. "I imagine he did his best to inform himself.
It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual." However, with the appearance of the pheasants the door from the drawing-room opened, and a slim dark-haired man slipped in.
All of which, combined with the special knowledge of an inner circle, helped still more to concentrate public attention on the convictions, the temperament, and the beauty of his wife. Amid a situation charged with these personal or dramatic elements the Friday so keenly awaited by Fontenoy and his party arrived. Immediately after question-time Fontenoy made his speech.
He had the lofty ambition to be a king himself, and he felt the stirrings of that genius which in after years was to make him a great soldier, and to win the brilliant victory of Fontenoy, which to this very day the French are never tired of recalling. Already Louis XV. had made him a marshal of France; and a certain restlessness came over him.
Fontenoy flung out a few stinging sentences, was hotly cheered both by his own supporters and from a certain area of the Liberal benches, and sat down again triumphant, having scored an excellent point. George turned round to his companion. "Good!" he said, with emphasis. "That rubbed it in!"
"Truest and best of friends, I shall think all night of these things." And he did turn and twist about for hours in his berth, so that more than once his fellow prisoners cried out angrily, "What is the matter with you, Tournier?" But he fell asleep towards morning, as soon as he had at last made up his mind that Fontenoy might kill him if he could, but he himself would fire into the ground.
The two posts were covered by a redoubt which belched forth flames; the Hollanders refused to deliver the assault. An attack made by the English on the wood of Barri had been repulsed. "Forward, my lord, right to your front," said old Konigseck to the Duke of Cumberland, George II.'s son, who commanded the English; "the ravine in front of Fontenoy must be carried."
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