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Updated: June 5, 2025
As for me, my affairs in Paris will keep me from La Tournoire while you are there: for consider, what I propose now is not what you refused that night we fled from Lavardin.
"A pleasant pair for anybody to come in conflict with," said I, as lightly as I could. "Yes, Monsieur, and seeing that strangers are so unwelcome there, you will do well to pass by the Chateau de Lavardin without stopping to exchange compliments." With a jocular smile, the innkeeper went about his business, while I finished my dinner with a mind full of misgivings.
"I begin to guess why you wanted to get into the chateau, what you were wandering about the house with a lantern for, why you took your leave so unexpectedly, and how you knew that in ten days I should be set free." "Nay, Monsieur, I cannot follow you in your perceptions. I know only that on Monday evening a party of the King's guard appeared before the Chateau de Lavardin "
At Vendome, the rock on which stands the castle is riddled with passages and halls, access to which is obtained not from the castle, but from the town. At Lavardin by Montoire it is the same. At Paulin in Tarn is a noble castle standing on a rock 300 feet high, and in this rock are storerooms, halls, a kitchen, a winding staircase.
"No, indeed. I left that hospitable house more than a week ago. I set myself free." "Oh, is that the case? I ask your pardon. When I saw you here, I naturally supposed your liberation was a result of what has just occurred. I haven't yet learned all particulars of the event." "What event? I don't understand you." "Then you don't know what has been going on at Lavardin recently?" "Not I."
I rose from the table, left the inn, and walked back, by the straight road of half a league, to Lavardin, pondering on the problem before me. It was a natural feeling that I might come by an inspiration more probably in the presence of the chateau than away from it.
He is all-powerful on his estate lord of life and death. You know what these great noblemen do when they believe their wives unfaithful. I have heard how the Prince de Condé " "Yes; but the Count de Lavardin would have your relations to fear." "I have no relations. I was an orphan in a convent. The Count took a fancy to my face, they told me. They urged me to consent to the marriage.
Benches cut in the rock surround the sanctuary. Externally a niche contains a rude image of the saint. Still nearer to Montoire, on the left bank of the Loir is Lavardin; high up on the side of the hill, completely screened by a dense wood, is a hamlet of Troglodytes. The principal excavation served originally as a hermitage, and is called La Grotte des Vierges.
"It is not only that you will darken the life of poor Hugues. There is another who will not leave Lavardin if you will not: one who will stay near, sharing your danger; and who, if you die, will seek his own death in avenging you." "Oh, no, Monsieur!" she entreated. "I was so glad to learn you had escaped. Do not rob me of that consolation. Do not stay at Lavardin.
We then proceeded through the forest, near the edge, till we were behind the Chateau de Lavardin. Besides the rope-ladder, we had with us a cross-bow that Hugues owned, a long slender cord, and a paper on which I had written some brief instructions during the afternoon. The night was starlit, though the moon would come later. We hoped to be away from the chateau before it rose.
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