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Behind them he could perceive the shadow of De Guiche, his eyes glittering in the obscurity, fastened ardently upon the princess's sitting apartment, which was partially lighted by the lamp in the inner room. The soft light which illumined the windows was the count's star. The fervent aspirations of his nature could be read in his eyes.
"You must remember," added the Duchesse de Guiche Grammont, "how much the Queen was censured for her enthusiasm about Lady Spencer." I replied that I did remember the much-ado about nothing there was regarding some English lady, to whom the Queen took a liking, whose name I could not exactly recall; but I knew well she studied to please the English in general.
He had, a fortnight before extorted from the Comte de Guiche a hundred pistoles, all he had, to assist in equipping him properly to go and meet Madame, on her arrival at Havre. He had drawn from Malicorne, three days before, fifty pistoles, the price of the brevet obtained for Montalais.
The young duke hesitated, looked around him, and with a last effort, half-choked by contending emotions, said, "And you, gentlemen, M. de Guiche and M. de Bragelonne, do not you accompany me?" De Guiche bowed and said, "Both M. de Bragelonne and myself await her majesty's orders; whatever the commands she imposes on us, we shall obey them."
"Do you not think you are deceiving yourself, Guiche?" "I am convinced of what I say," said the count. "Now, inform me count," said Raoul, fixing a penetrating look upon him, "what has happened to render you so clear-sighted?" Guiche hesitated for a moment, and then answered, "Self-love, I suppose." "Self-love is a pedantic word, Guiche." "What do you mean?"
"On the contrary, I am in the most perfect possession of my senses; and I repeat, you will defend M. de Guiche before the king." "Why should I?" "Because the cause of M. de Guiche is your own, Madame," said Manicamp, with ardor kindling in his eyes. "What do you mean by that?"
"No: sing it to me and I shall make its acquaintance." "I cannot tell you how it begins; I only remember how it ends." "Very well, at all events, that is something." "When Maids of Honor happen to run short, Lo! Guiche will furnish the entire Court." "The idea is weak, and the rhyme poor," said De Guiche.
"Yes, yes," said De Guiche, "a strange face; but these monks are subject to such degrading practices; their fasts make them pale, the blows of the discipline make them hypocrites, and their eyes become inflamed through weeping for the good things of this life we common folk enjoy, but they have lost."
The King confirmed Bailly as Prevôt des Marchands, wrote to M. Necker, to recall him, sent his letter open to the Assembly, to be forwarded by them, and invited them to go with him to Paris the next day, to satisfy the city of his dispositions; and that night, and the next morning, the Count d'Artois, and M. de Montesson, a deputy connected with him, Madame de Polignac, Madame de Guiche, and the Count de Vaudreuil, favorites of the Queen, the Abbe de Vermont, her confessor, the Prince of Conde, and the Duke of Bourbon fled.
"What cause, Madame?" said Manicamp; "may I be permitted, without indiscretion, to ask your highness?" "You ask such a question! You, M. de Guiche's intimate friend, his confidant, indeed!" "Oh, Madame! his intimate friend yes; confidant no. De Guiche is a man who can keep his own secrets, who has some of his own certainly, but who never breathes a syllable about them.
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