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Tell the chiefs that I live, but beg them not to rejoice too openly until we gain a better citadel, or rejoin the army of our invincible Joyeuse, for I confess I do not wish to be taken now, after having escaped from fire and water." "Monseigneur, you shall be strictly obeyed, and no one shall know excepting ourselves that we have the honor of your company among us."
"I have none." "To your wife, then." "Thank God, I am not married." "Then to yourself, and if you do not go in " cried Joyeuse, advancing with a menacing air. "Ventre de biche! but if the music be for me " "Old fool!" growled Joyeuse. "If you do not go in and hide your ugly face they shall break their instruments over your head."
The next day he went to Landau, and I, who formed one of his numerous and distinguished escort, accompanied him there, and then returned to the army, which was placed under the command of the Marechal de Joyeuse. We found it at about three leagues from Ketsch, its right at Roth, and its left at Waldsdorff.
Ordinarily M. Joyeuse made a part of the happy crowd that throngs the streets with a jingling of money in the pockets and packages in every hand.
Thus, drawn close together in a small room at the top of the lonely house, in the warmth, the security of their comfortable home, the Joyeuse household seems like a nest right at the top of a lofty tree. The girls sew, read, chat a little.
"If they had added to their courage a little training," said the same commissioner after the battle, "the day might have been ours." The commander in chief, Villaret de Joyeuse, who had won his lieutenancy and the esteem of Suffren in the American war, was no such scorner of wary tactics.
Remy installed himself with Diana in the lodging pointed out. About two o'clock the Duc de Joyeuse entered with his trumpets blowing, lodged his troops, and gave strict injunctions to prevent disorder.
The most annoying circumstance was, that M. de Joyeuse would communicate with nobody, and was so ill-tempered that none dared to speak to him. At last he determined upon his plans, and I was of the detachment by which they were to be carried out. We found that the bridges could be made, and returned to announce this to M. de Joyeuse.
Instinctively his eyes sought friendly faces, a box facing the stage occupied by the Joyeuse family; Elise and the younger girls seated in the front, Aline and the father in the row behind a charming family group, like a bouquet wet with dew amid a display of artificial flowers.
When he was rich, he was laughing and good-tempered; but when he was in want of money, he used to shut himself up in one of his castles, where, frowning and sad, he bemoaned his fate, until he had drawn from the weakness of the king some new gift. Joyeuse was very different. He loved the king, who, in turn, had for him almost a fatherly affection.
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