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"We must take my poor Fosseuse as we find her. But all that she has been saying to you simply means that she has never loved as yet," he added, smiling. Then he rose and went out on to the lawn for a moment. "You must be very fond of M. Benassis?" asked Genestas. "Oh! yes, sir; and there are plenty of people hereabouts who feel as I do that they would be glad to do anything in the world for him.
I beg you to forgive me, and to think no more about what I have said to you on the subject. Will you oblige me so far as to rise and go to Fosseuse, who is taken very ill? I am well assured that, in her present situation, you will forget everything and resent nothing. You know how dearly I love her, and I hope you will comply with my request."
"It is true, sire, and I ask your pardon," said Marguerite, smiling. "Ma mie, you are right, public report often lies, and we sovereigns have great reason to establish this theory;" and he laughed ironically. "Well; and Fosseuse?" said Marguerite. "She is ill, ma mie, and the doctors do not understand her malady." "That is strange, sire.
La Fosseuse, who was a very pretty woman, died when her daughter was born, and her husband's grief for his loss was so great that he followed her within the year, leaving nothing in the world to this little one except an existence whose continuance was very doubtful a mere feeble flicker of a life.
When I have seen him," she seemed to hesitate, then she went on, "I am happy all the rest of the day." She bent her head over her work, and plied her needle with unwonted swiftness. "Well, has the captain been telling you something about Napoleon?" said the doctor, as he came in again. "Have you seen the Emperor, sir?" cried La Fosseuse, gazing at the officer's face with eager curiosity.
From the first La Fosseuse became almost a companion to the young heiress; she was taught to read and write, and her future mistress sometimes amused herself by giving her music lessons. She was treated sometimes as a lady's companion, sometimes as a waiting-maid, and in this way they made an incomplete being of her.
"I have done so a hundred times." "There is, first, the King of Navarre." "Oh! I do not mind him; he is entirely occupied by his amours with La Fosseuse." "He, monseigneur, will dispute every inch with you; he watches you and your brother; he hungers for the throne. If any accident should happen to your brother, see if he will not be here with a bound from Pau to Paris."
Sometimes we took a walk in the park on the banks of the river, bordered by an avenue of trees three thousand yards in length. The rest of the day was passed in innocent amusements; and in the afternoon, or at night, we commonly had a ball. The King was very assiduous with Fosseuse, who, being dependent on me, kept herself within the strict bounds of honour and virtue.
For his part, he avoided me; he grew cold and indifferent, and since Fosseuse ceased to conduct herself with discretion, the happy moments that we experienced during the four or five years we were together in Gascony were no more. Peace being restored, and my brother departed for France, as I have already related, the King my husband and I returned to Nerac.
It was with some difficulty that the King my husband would consent to a removal, so unwilling was he to leave his Fosseuse. He paid more attention to me, in hopes that I should refuse to set out on this journey to France; but, as I had given my word in my letters to the King and the Queen my mother that I would go, and as I had even received money for the purpose, I could not do otherwise.
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