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This meant that for them the tomb was, as it were, a second gestation, preparing them for another life. Therefore the barrow symbolises the female organ, just as the raised stone is the male organ. In fact, where menhirs are found, an obscene creed has persisted. Witness what took place at Guerande, at Chichebouche, at Croissic, at Livarot.
"Monsieur de Monsoreau my colonel, MM. de Ribeirac and d'Antragues my captains, and M. Livarot, my lieutenant of the guards, take your places." Each of those named took the posts which, at a real coronation, etiquette would have assigned to them. Meanwhile, the cardinal had passed behind the altar to put on his pontifical robes; soon he reappeared with the holy vial.
The Duc d'Anjou grew red. "Let us destroy," continued Mayenne, "to the last man, that cursed race whom the king enriches, and let each of us charge ourselves with the life of one. We are thirty here; let us count." "I," said D'Antragues, "charge myself with Quelus." "I with Maugiron," said Livarot. "And I with Schomberg," said Ribeirac.
Bouvard was assiduously paying his addresses to Madame Bordin. She used to receive him rather cramped in her gown of shot silk, which creaked like a horse's harness, all the while fingering her long gold chain to keep herself in countenance. Their conversations turned on the people of Chavignolles or on "the dear departed," who had been an usher at Livarot.
A river of blood flowed over the room; and the curtains were hanging in strips from sword cuts. "Oh! poor Remy!" cried Antragues, suddenly. "Dead!" "Yes." "But a regiment of troopers must have passed through the room," cried Livarot. Then, seeing the door of the corridor open, and traces of blood indicating that one or more of the combatants had also passed through there, he followed it.
"Yes, gentlemen, I promise to employ them well." "Now go to bed," said the duke, and M. de Monsoreau bowed, and went out, very happy to escape. When Monsoreau had retired, the repast continued, and was more gay and joyous than ever. "Now, Livarot," said the duke, "finish the recital of your flight from Paris, which Monsoreau interrupted."
They were told that it was three incarnate devils from Paris who were making all the disturbance. "Three men, Bussy; see who they are." Bussy raised himself in his stirrups, and his quick eye soon recognized Livarot. "Mort de ma vie, monseigneur," cried he, "they are our friends from Paris who are besieging us." "No!" cried Livarot, "on the contrary, it is these people who are killing us."
"One could see well from there, and I am sure poor Diana will be more than once at the window," said Antragues. "I think she must be there already," said Ribeirac, "for the window is open." "True, but what can be the meaning of that ladder before it?" "It is odd." "We are not the only ones to wonder," said Livarot, "see those peasants, who are stopping their carts to look."
And at these words, the poor king, trembling, began to pray. Rising again in a few minutes, he cried: "If Quelus only remembers the thrust I taught him! As for Schomberg, he is so cool that he ought to kill Ribeirac; Maugiron, also, should be more than a match for Livarot. But D'Epernon, he is lost; fortunately he is the one of the four whom I love least.
"And I will live; therefore tranquilize yourself, Diana. Besides, I am well seconded you do not know my friends; Antragues uses his sword as well as I do, Ribeirac is so steady on the ground that his eyes and his arms alone seem to be alive, and Livarot is as active as a tiger. Believe me, Diana, I wish there were more danger, for there would be more honor."
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