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"I will try to do so, monseigneur," replied the Gascon, with a noble confidence. "Remember at a later period and at a certain moment, if any mischance should happen to you," said Richelieu, significantly, "that it was I who came to seek you, and that I did all in my power to prevent this misfortune befalling you."
He was now enlisted in the service of the new monarchy; and he proceeded to atone for his republican heresies by sending republican throats to the guillotine. Among his most intimate associates was a Gascon named Demerville, who had been employed in an office of high trust under the Committee of Public Safety.
La Calprenède, whose full name was nothing less than Gautier de Costes de la Calprenède, was a Gascon gentleman of the Guards, of whose personal history the most notorious fact is that he had the temerity to marry a woman who had already buried five husbands.
Ridicule, as D'Artagnan had judiciously foreseen, acted upon him in a manner which neither the chances of war, the aspirations of ambition, nor the fear of death had been able to do. "Good," thought the Gascon, "he is frightened: I am safe." "Oh! as to the king," said Monk, "fear nothing, my dear Monsieur d'Artagnan; the king will not jest with Monk, I assure you!"
The Gascon, by his exaggerated tales of what he had seen, will give more credence still to the stories which have been circulated during the past three years on the island, absurd stories but useful, and which until now alas! have been our safeguards by so confusing events that it has been impossible to separate the true from the false." "Doubtless, but through what fatality this mystery?
That evening when they went down to the saloon the adventurer was taken aside by Father Griffen; he sought by every possible means to ascertain if the Gascon knew more than he appeared to, concerning the surroundings of Blue Beard. The extraordinary persistence with which Croustillac occupied himself with her and the men about her had aroused the suspicions of the good priest.
"What would you wish, sir? gayety is the wealth of the poor." "My lord," cried the colonel, in a severe tone, "the king, my master, does not merit this reproach." "What reproach?" said the Gascon, stupefied. "Your grace said that gayety is the wealth of the poor." "Well, sir, I do not see what there is to insult your master, the king, in that."
At length he yielded to the popular hatred, and banished them from the kingdom, permitting them, however, to take with them their property. Edward II., a weak and despicable sovereign, cared for nothing but pleasure. He was under the influence of the son of a Gascon gentleman, Peter of Gaveston, whom, contrary to the injunction of his father, he recalled from banishment.
The ineptitude which characterised all Edward's subordinates was particularly conspicuous among his Gascon seneschals and their subordinates.
Ah! confound it! yes, my pocket has a hole in it." "Oh, yes, Monsieur Raoul!" said Mousqueton, "the letter was very consoling. These gentlemen read it to me and I wept for joy." "But at any rate, you know where he is, Monsieur d'Artagnan?" asked Raoul, somewhat comforted. "Ah! that's the thing!" replied the Gascon. "Undoubtedly I know it, but it is a mystery." "Not to me, I hope?"
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