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Updated: July 22, 2025
That was my reason, as you may have surmised, for writing to you. My sister has mourned you for dead was mourning you for dead whilst you sat at the feet of your Roxalanne and made love to her among the roses of Lavedan." "Lavedan?" echoed the other slowly. Then, raising his voice, "what the devil are you saying?" he blazed. "What do I know of Lavedan?"
This is not the Luxembourg. En province comme en province, and here we are simple folk " "Simple folk?" she interrupted, gasping. "By God, am I married to a ploughman? Am I Vicomtesse of Lavedan, or the wife of a boor of the countryside? And is the honour of your daughter a matter "
A little while I sat there listening, and surveying the stately, turreted chateau that loomed, a grey, noble pile, beyond the water. I speculated what demesne this might be, and I realized that it was probably Lavedan. I pondered what I had best do, and in the end I took the resolve to swim the river and knock at the gates.
I would not lose you, Marcel; as lose you I shall if you marry this rose of Languedoc, for I take it that she is too sweet a flower to let wither in the stale atmosphere of Courts. This man, this Vicomte de Lavedan, has earned his death. Why should I not let him die, since if he dies you will not wed?"
Was that, perhaps, not cheating?" "No, monsieur, it was not," I answered quietly. "It was in the terms of your challenge that I was free to go to Lavedan in what guise I listed, employing what wiles I pleased. But let that be," I ended, and, creasing the paper, I poured the sand back into the box, and dusted the document. "The point is hardly worth discussing at this time of day.
It will also be your warrant to Mademoiselle de Lavedan, and will afford proof to her that your mission has been successful." "Sire!" I cried. And in my gratitude I could say no more, but I sank on my knee before him and raised his hand to my lips. "There," said he in a fatherly voice. "Go now, and be happy." As I rose, he suddenly put up his hand.
I am ready to swear to what I know that, whilst I was here at Lavedan, some weeks ago, I discovered his connection with the rebels." "And what think you, miserable fool, shall your word weigh against mine?" I cried.
As I had approached Lavedan that day, I had been taken with a great, an overwhelming shame at the bargain I had driven. I had pondered, and it had come to me that she had been right to suggest that in matters of love what is not freely given it is not worth while to take. And out of my shame and that conclusion had sprung a new resolve.
"Were it not better first to return to Toulouse and obtain a counter-warrant from the King?" There was wisdom in his words much wisdom. But my blood was afire, and I was in too hot a haste to reason. "Return to Toulouse?" I echoed scornfully. "A waste of time, Captain. No, I will go straight to Lavedan. I need no counter-warrant.
When they were gone, I returned to the table, and, sitting down, I buried my head in my arms, and there I lay, a prey to the most poignant grief that in all my easy, fortunate life I had ever known. That she should have done this thing! That the woman I loved, the pure, sweet, innocent girl that I had wooed so ardently in my unworthiness at Lavedan, should have stooped to such an act of betrayal!
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