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As she left, Josiana took the arm of Lord David, an act which was tolerated amongst people "engaged." She said to him, "It is very fine, but " "But what?" "I thought it would have driven away my spleen. It has not." Lord David stopped, looked at Josiana, shut his mouth, and inflated his cheeks, whilst he nodded his head, which signified attention, and said to the duchess,
He had allowed himself to be drawn to a fearful gambling-table, without thinking what he was about; for, so subtle is the poison of illusion, he had staked Dea against Josiana, and had gained a monster; he had staked Ursus against a family, and had gained an insult; he had played his mountebank platform against his seat in the Lords; for the applause which was his he had gained insult.
To reinstate Gwynplaine was to crush Josiana. Barkilphedro had succeeded, and it was for this that for so many years the waves, the surge, the squalls had buffeted, shaken, thrown, pushed, tormented, and respected this bubble of glass, which bore within it so many commingled fates.
He must take advantage of them on the moment. How did the queen feel towards the Duchess Josiana? Did she wish her good or evil? Here was the problem. Barkilphedro set himself to solve it. This problem solved, he might go further. Divers chances served Barkilphedro his tenacity at the watch above all.
An ungrateful one. He hates the light which lights and warms him. Zoilus hated that benefit to man, Homer. To inflict on Josiana what would nowadays be called vivisection to place her, all convulsed, on his anatomical table; to dissect her alive, at his leisure, in some surgery; to cut her up, as an amateur, while she should scream this dream delighted Barkilphedro!
"As a beast," replied Barkilphedro, with a bow. "Madam," said the queen to Josiana, "he is cleverer than we." For a man like Barkilphedro to approach the queen was to obtain a hold on her. He could say, "I hold her." Now, he wanted a means of taking advantage of his power for his own benefit. He had his foothold in the court. To be settled there was a fine thing. No chance could now escape him.
The confrontation of Hardquanonne with Gwynplaine had taken place. Barkilphedro had been present. We have seen the result. The same day a post-chaise belonging to the royal household was suddenly sent by her Majesty to fetch Lady Josiana from London to Windsor, where the queen was at the time residing.
There came over her face, after any one had spoken wittily in her presence, a reflective smile of singular grace. She was free from malice, and rather good-natured than otherwise. Josiana was bored. The fact is so natural as to be scarcely worth mentioning. Lord David held the position of judge in the gay life of London. He was looked up to by the nobility and gentry.
He had reached the paroxysm which is called discouragement. He was all the more furious, because despairing. To gnaw one's chain how tragic and appropriate the expression! A villain gnawing at his own powerlessness! Barkilphedro was perhaps just on the point of renouncing not his desire to do evil to Josiana, but his hope of doing it; not the rage, but the effort.
Josiana had le tour. This is easy to understand when we reflect that she was, although illegitimate, the queen's sister that is to say, a princely personage. To have le tour what does it mean? Viscount St. John, otherwise Bolingbroke, wrote as follows to Thomas Lennard, Earl of Sussex: "Two things mark the great in England, they have le tour; in France, le pour."
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