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How was it that you, who are De Guiche's intimate friend, and who know that he is subject to such acts of folly, did not stop him in time?" Manicamp no longer knew what to do; the tone in which the king spoke was anything but that of a credulous man. On the other hand, it did not indicate any particular severity, nor did he seem to care very much about the cross-examination.
He fired upon the brute and missed his aim, and then it dashed upon him." "And the horse was killed." "Ah! your majesty knows that, then." "I have been told that a horse has been found lying dead in the cross-roads of the Bois-Rochin, and I presume it was De Guiche's horse." "Perfectly true, sire, it was his." "Well, so much for the horse, and now for De Guiche?"
Their flattery pleased, as much as De Guiche's courage had astonished him, and he simply replied: "I did not tell you to return, comte." "Certainly not, sire; but your majesty did not tell me to remain." The king perceived that time was passing away, that if this strange scene were prolonged it would complicate everything, and that a single cloud upon the picture would eventually spoil the whole.
By this she knew that the rest of the evening was at her own disposal; and making, behind the door which had just been closed, a gesture which indicated but little real respect for the princess, she went down the staircase in search of Malicorne, who was very busily engaged at that moment in watching a courier, who, covered with dust, had just left the Comte de Guiche's apartments.
Will you be good enough to come and see me? for I am told you have arrived from Blois. "Your devoted "VILLIERS, Duke of Buckingham." "I am going now to see your master," said Raoul to De Guiche's servant, as he dismissed him; "and I shall be with the Duke of Buckingham in an hour," he added, dismissing with these words the duke's messenger.
"M. de Guiche's attentions to Madame do not concern me?" "No, monseigneur; and what I say to you I would say to De Guiche himself, so little do I think of the attentions he pays Madame. Nay, I would say it even to Madame herself. Only you understand what I am afraid of I am afraid of being thought jealous of the favor shown, when I am only jealous as far as friendship is concerned.
"What did you say?" said the duke, haughtily, thoroughly roused by this insidious jest. "Am I not right? for does not M. de Guiche hold the chief post of honor in your household?" "Well," replied the duke, somewhat calmed, "had this passion of Buckingham been remarked?" "Certainly." "Very well. Do people say that M. de Guiche's is remarked as much?"
"Had Guiche's horse been ripped open like M. de Saint-Maure's horse, I should not have been astonished." Manicamp opened his eyes very wide. "Am I mistaken," resumed the king, "was it not in the frontal bone that De Guiche's horse was struck? You must admit, Monsieur de Manicamp, that that is a very singular place for a wild boar to attack."
But yet, on reflection, it could hardly have been that, for De Guiche's pistol was found close by him still loaded." "His pistol? But a man does not go to a boar-hunt with a pistol, I should think." "Sire, it is also said that De Guiche's horse was killed and that the horse is still to be found in the wide open glade in the forest." "His horse? Guiche go on horseback to a boar-hunt?
"Not at all; they are M. de Saint-Aignan's." "Are you sure?" cried La Valliere; and this exclamation which escaped from the young girl's joyous heart made the king's heart throb with delight. "Yes, to Saint-Aignan, our friend," he said. "But, sire," returned La Valliere, "I cannot visit M. de Saint-Aignan's rooms any more than I could M. de Guiche's. It is impossible impossible."
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