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Before Jocelyne, who, at the sound of these steps, had clasped her hands before her, with an expression of surprise and almost of alarm, had fully risen from her seat, the door was flung open, and a man enveloped in a cloak, and with a jewelled hat sunk low upon his brow, entered hastily. He closed the door, and then gazed with a rapid glance around him.
But I thought that you had left the court with Dame Perrotte, the sturdy Huguenot, ever since. Oh yes! I recall it all now," she continued, checking herself with a sort of shudder. "But what brings you hither? Speak. Have you any favour to ask that the Queen of Navarre can grant?" "I would speak with you, madam, and alone, upon a matter of urgency and importance," stammered Jocelyne.
He will save him who is unjustly condemned; and you will save his repentant soul. Come, mother, come come," she continued, as if speaking to a child, "the king is waiting for you!" "Charlot my nursling dying!" murmured the old woman "Yes let us go." "Alayn will accompany us," said Jocelyne, turning to the youth, who stood at the window unhappy and confused.
But my duty compels me to adopt other measures. Come, sir!" When Philip de la Mole had been conducted from the room by the agents of the Queen-mother, Jocelyne turned to her grandmother, without rising from the ground, and exclaimed in the bitterest despair "Mother mother you have killed me!" "Who spoke of Charles?
But I wonder at myself that I should bandy words with you. Go to your lover, girl, and comfort him as best you may." "My lover! he!" murmured Jocelyne; "alas! he never loved me!"
Jocelyne had sprung up with a suppressed cry. "Ah! I am not mistaken," said the man advancing, and removing his hat. "Jocelyne! Dame Perrotte! I am a fugitive, and I seek a shelter at your hands. I could not trust myself to those who call themselves my friends; others who might have protected me, I know not where to find, but I bethought myself of you of you, Jocelyne and" "Philip!
They had placed guards about my door; but my Jocelyne, my grandchild, found means to lure them from their post, and I escaped them. I had promised her what had I promised her? Oh, my poor Charlot! my brain wanders strangely at times. No matter.
If I have loved him if I love him still it is because I alone have sought it should be so." "Jocelyne! be still, sweet girl," said La Mole, affected, and moving towards the door. "And were he our bitterest enemy," continued the excited girl, still clinging to his arm, "he is now a proscribed fugitive no matter why God sends him to us and it is ours to save, not to condemn him."
As the general is an old bachelor, and an old beau, and there are several ladies at the Hall, especially his quondam flame Lady Jocelyne, he is put rather upon his gallantry. He commonly passes some time, therefore, at his toilette, and takes the field at a late hour every morning, with his hair dressed out and powdered, and a rose in his button-hole.
"For then I can see you when I will, fair cousin Jocelyne, and come and sit by your side as I do now, to continue my work with the permission of my master the armourer, who, whatever he may say, is as good a Calvinist at heart as ourselves, I am sure.
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