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I stopped, and, after asking him about you, I could not help expressing my surprise to see him on foot at such a place. You know the man's sneer. 'A Frenchman so gallant as Monsieur de Liancourt, said he, 'need not be surprised at much greater miracles; the iron moves to the magnet: I have a little adventure here.
"Any one you like to invite:" and looking round for some one on whom to vent his displeasure, perceived Camilla still listening to Liancourt.
Like most worldly men, Lord Lilburne was prepossessed in favour of those who seek to rise in life: and like men who have excelled in manly and athletic exercises, he was also prepossessed in favour of those who appeared fitted for the same success. Liancourt took aside his friend, as Lord Lilburne was talking with his other guests:
When Philip arrived at his lodgings in town it was very late, but he still found Liancourt waiting the chance of his arrival. The Frenchman was full of his own schemes and projects. He was a man of high repute and connections; negotiations for his recall to Paris had been entered into; he was divided between a Quixotic loyalty and a rational prudence; he brought his doubts to Vaudemont.
The dark eyes of Vaudemont seemed still to shine on her; his voice yet rung in her ear; the wild tales of daring and danger with which Liancourt had associated his name yet haunted her bewildered fancy she started, frightened at her own thoughts.
By his bedside sat Liancourt, who, long alarmed at his disappearance, had at last contrived, with the help of Mr. Barlow, to trace him to Gawtrey's house, and had for several days taken share in the vigils of poor Fanny. While he was yet explaining all this to Philip, and congratulating him on his evident recovery, the physician entered to confirm the congratulation.
To cheat! an Englishman! a nobleman! impossible!" "Whether he do or not," returned Vaudemont, in a calmer tone, "I have foregone the vengeance, because he is " "Is what?" "No matter," said Vaudemont aloud, but he added to himself, "Because he is the grandfather of Fanny!" "You are very enigmatical to-day." "Patience, Liancourt; I may solve all the riddles that make up my life, yet.
In their rants the Duc de Liancourt had taken his seat in the first Assembly; though, as he assured M. Bertrand, the king himself was aware that his object in so doing had been to serve his majesty in the most effectual manner; and he was also the statesman whose advice had mainly contributed to induce the king to visit Paris after the destruction of the Bastile, a step which she had always regarded as the forerunner and cause of some of the most irremediable encroachments of the Revolutionists.
"But why 'poor fellow! Monsieur de Liancourt?" "He was rising so high before the revolution. There was not a braver officer in the army. But he is but a soldier of fortune, and his career is closed." "Till the Bourbons return," said another Carlist, playing with his moustache. "You will really honour me much by introducing me to him," said Lord Lilburne.
He was the son of M. de Saint-Aignan, who with honour and valour was truly romantic in gallantry, in belles-lettres, and in arms. He was Captain of the Guards of Gaston, and at the end of 1649 bought of the Duc de Liancourt the post of first-gentleman of the King's chamber. He commanded afterwards in Berry against the party of M. le Prince, and served elsewhere subsequently.
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