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Madame was conversing with Mademoiselle de Chatillon and Mademoiselle de Crequy, who were next to her, and addressed a few words to Monsieur, who drew aside as soon as the king was announced. Mademoiselle de la Valliere, like Montalais, was on Madame's left hand, and the last but one on the line, Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente being on her right.
And when one knew, as Duchemin knew, what delights New York has for young women of wealth and fashion, one perceived a radiant and many-coloured background for this drab life of a recluse, expatriate from the high world of her inheritance, which Eve de Montalais must lead, and for the six years of her premature widowhood must have led, in that lonely château, buried deep in the loneliest hills of all France, the sole companion and comfort of her husband's bereaved sister and grandmother, chained by sorrow to their sorrow, by an inexorable reluctance to give them pain by seeming to slight the memory of the husband, brother and grandson through turning her face toward the world of life and light and gaiety of which she was so essentially a part, isolate from which she was so inevitably a thing existing without purpose or effect.
"Monsieur Malicorne! why, you are both mad!" "How do you do, Mademoiselle Montalais?" inquired Malicorne. "I needed but this!" said Montalais, in despair. "Oh! Mademoiselle Montalais," murmured Malicorne; "do not be so severe, I beseech you."
But I think you'll recall my telling you I stand in well with the Police Department in the old home town. Maybe you thought that was swank. Likely you did. But it wasn't. I've got a couple of friends of mine from Headquarters waiting downstairs this very minute, ready and willing to cop out the honour of putting the Lone Wolf under arrest for stealing the Montalais jewels."
He had, a fortnight before, extorted from the Comte de Guiche a hundred pistoles, all he had, to assist in equipping him properly to go and meet Madame, on her arrival at Le Havre. He had drawn from Malicorne, three days before, fifty pistoles, the price of the brevet obtained for Montalais.
Raoul noted only the tears Louise shed; his look, however, did not penetrate nay, sought not to penetrate beyond those tears. He bent his knee before her, and tenderly kissed her hand; and it was evident that in that kiss he poured out his whole heart. "Rise, rise," said Montalais to him, ready to cry, "for Athenais is coming."
"A provincial fortune, Mademoiselle de Montalais." "Your father is not in the secrets of monsieur le prince for nothing." "An advantage which is confined to lending monseigneur money." "In a word, you are not the most cunning young fellow in the province for nothing." "You flatter me " "Who, I?" "Yes, you." "How so?" "Since I maintain that I have no credit, and you maintain I have."
And in order that the wife should not be of one party whilst the husband belonged to the other, a situation which presents serious inconveniences, particularly with characters like those of the future consorts Malicorne had imagined the idea of making the central point of union the household of Monsieur, the king's brother. Mademoiselle de Montalais would be maid of honor to Madame.
There is the world is it not mine? Mrs. Lamar? Ugh! Pardon me, my friend, but it is an ugly name. "You know my ancestors? De L'Enclos, Montalais, Maintenon, La Marana! They were happy in their way and they were great. I must do nothing unworthy of them. Set your mind at rest, Mr. Lamar; but, really, you should have known better you who have seen the world and Le Mire in Paris!
But let us do him this justice if it had not been for chance and Mademoiselle de Montalais, two great temptations, Raoul, after delivering his message, would have galloped off towards his father's house, turning his head round, perhaps, but without stopping for a single instant, even if Louise had held out her arms to him.
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