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Updated: June 27, 2025
It is impossible to conceive the insolent malice that was thrown into La Valentinois' glance and voice, and the mockery of her bow, as she made this speech. And grey-haired Madame de Montal, gazing steadily at her, said: "Madame, you speak to the Queen!" "No, Montal," and Catherine rose, her face white as death, "you mistake; it is the Queen who speaks to me."
Her eyes they are blue-black, not black met mine, with a laugh in them, as she said: "'Well, Le Brusquet, have you lost your ape, or has some jest failed you? you look so sad." "'Neither, madame, I answered; 'but I have lost my heart. "'Tell me, she said, 'who is it? Is it La Beauce? or, perhaps, Madame de Montal? "'Neither, madame; it has strayed much higher.
It was the Château de Montal, in connection with which I had already heard the story of one Rose de Montal, a young lady of some three centuries ago, who had given her heart to a nobleman of the country, Roger de Castelnau. By-and-by the charms of another lady caused him to neglect the fair Rose de Montal.
"He has slain three boars and five stags," repeated the Queen in an even monotone, and turning to Madame de Montal, who stood behind her chair, she said bitterly: "Why does not somebody cry, 'God save the King!?" "All France cries that, your Majesty," said Diane.
There were with him two of the Queen's ladies Madame de Montal, and the bright-eyed Cypriote, Mademoiselle Davila, she who had escaped from the sack of Cyprus and these two immediately appropriated mademoiselle, asking ten questions in a breath, never waiting for answer, and detailing the hardships of their own journey of four leagues or so from Paris.
The noble staircase and all its delicate sculpture remain, but these only add to the regret that one feels for what is no longer there. Had the Commission of Historic Monuments placed the Château de Montal upon its list, it would probably have escaped spoliation, although, in the case of private property, the State has no power to prevent destruction, however grievous the national loss.
In the ante-room itself there were about a dozen or so of ladies-in-waiting and pages, all talking and laughing; and as we followed De Lorgnac I felt a light touch at my elbow, and turning met a merry face that smiled up at me. It was little Mademoiselle Davila, the same who with Madame de Montal had met us at Longpont. "Eh bien! So you have come, monsieur.
It was well on towards the afternoon that we reached the Porte St. Michel, for we had started late, and Madame de Montal would on no account be parted from the sumpter horses, whose rate of progress was necessarily slow.
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