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Updated: June 21, 2025
"I did not have a chance. My old Modeste is very ill and asks me to come to her. I should never forgive myself if I did not go." "What, Modeste? So very ill? Is it really so serious? What a pity! But you will come back again?" "If I can. But I must leave Fresne to-morrow morning." "Oh, I defy you to leave Fresne!" said M. de Talbrun.
During this time she, like a true woman, and no ordinary place-hunter, made his devotion to her react upon himself, for the good of his country and to his own honour. She not only counselled him wisely herself, but persuaded him to surround himself with wise counsellors. Athenæum, June 25, 1904. Du Fresne de Beaucourt, Hist. de Charles VII, t. iii. p. 286.
He knew every particular of the wrong-doings and the imprudences of his early friend, and even the additions made to them by calumny, ever since the fit of in dependence which, after her father's death, had led her to throw off all control. She told of her sudden departure from Fresne, where she might have found so safe a refuge with her friend and cousin.
It is likely enough that many a roving mariner who touched at the islands never informed the world of his doings, and had, indeed, sometimes excellent reasons for secrecy. Still, for many years after the misadventure of Marion du Fresne, the more prudent Pacific skippers gave New Zealand a wide berth.
"I did not have a chance. My old Modeste is very ill and asks me to come to her. I should never forgive myself if I did not go." "What, Modeste? So very ill? Is it really so serious? What a pity! But you will come back again?" "If I can. But I must leave Fresne to-morrow morning." "Oh, I defy you to leave Fresne!" said M. de Talbrun.
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