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Listening?" cried Lucas, as if a quick doubt of Mayenne's good faith to him struck his mind. "Certainly not," Mayenne answered. "The door is bolted; he might be in the street for all he can hear. The wall was built for that." "What will you do with him, monsieur?" "We'll have him out," said Mayenne. Lucas, needing no second bidding, hastened down the room.
"Well," said M. Étienne, impatiently, "is that all you have to say? What are we to do about it?" "Do? Why, nothing." "Nothing?" he cried, with his hand on his sword. "Nothing? And let that scoundrel have her?" "That is M. de Mayenne's affair," Vigo said. "We can't help it." "I will help it!" M. Étienne declared. "Mordieu!
What was as much to the point, the officer had no doubt of Mayenne's good faith. He went with his paper into an inner room, where we caught sight, through the door, of big books with a clerk or two behind them, and in a moment appeared again with a key. "Since the young gentleman's a count, I'll do turnkey's office myself," he said, his grim old battlement of a face smiling.
The ladies streamed into the room, the lovely Mme. de Montpensier alone conspicuous by her absence. Mme. de Mayenne's face was hot and angry, and bore marks of tears. Not in this room only had a combat raged. "Never shall he come into this house again," madame was crying vigorously. "I had had him strangled, the vile little beast, an she had not seized him.
"That's as good as to say there is none," Mayenne answered; "for I have the boy." Mayenne's ward. Lucas sprang up. "You have him? Where?" "Yes, I have him," Mayenne answered with his tantalizing slowness. "Alive?" "I suppose so. He had his flogging but I told them I was not done with him. I thought we might have a use for him. He is in the oratory there." "Diable!
The left wing was commanded by Marshal de Rene, with six regiments of French and Lorrainers, two thousand Germans, six hundred French cuirassiers, and the mounted troopers of Count Egmont. It is probable that Mayenne's whole force, therefore, amounted to nearly four thousand cavalry and at least thirteen thousand foot.
In Mayenne's Opinion the Duke of Guise was likely to be the man; but there is little doubt that Philip, in case these more cherished schemes should fail, had made up his mind so far as he ever did make up his mind upon anything to select his nephew the Archduke Ernest, brother of the Emperor Rudolph, for his son-in-law. But it was not necessary to make an immediate choice.
"I swore no son of mine should ever marry a Leaguer, but I have come to see the error of my ways, as you will see yours, Mayenne. It is for you to choose where among the king's forces you will marry mademoiselle." A vague uneasiness, a fear which he would not own a fear, crept into Mayenne's eyes.
"Well, then," cried M. Étienne, all good humour in a moment, "what more do you want? We'll divert ourselves pouring pitch out of the windows on Mayenne's ruffians." "No, M. Étienne, it can't be done. If M. le Duc were here and gave the command to receive her, that would be one thing.
The left wing was commanded by Marshal de Rene, with six regiments of French and Lorrainers, two thousand Germans, six hundred French cuirassiers, and the mounted troopers of Count Egmont. It is probable that Mayenne's whole force, therefore, amounted to nearly four thousand cavalry and at least thirteen thousand foot.
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