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It was ever thus: De Ganache was ever first; and I answered, without letting her complete her speech: "M. de Ganache is no longer a prisoner; he was freed by Montluc this morning." "Freed! Are you sure?" "Sure as I ride here. I saw him leave Poitiers in safety." "It is almost incredible. And yet " "It is true, mademoiselle. M. de Ganache is known to me, and I had speech with him before he left.
As I came forward I saw mademoiselle start slightly, make a half step towards me, and draw back, and then Montluc said: "This gentleman, mademoiselle, will be your escort to Paris." I bowed, saying nothing, but she held out her hand. "Monsieur, I had hoped you would have known me." I confess I was tongue-tied, and could only mutter something, and Montluc glanced from the one to the other of us.
"I will take Lizette," I said. "Then you take the best horse in all Poitou." And Ménorval then and there offered me a hundred crowns for her, which, needless to say, I refused. At the appointed time, accompanied by Pierrebon, I rode into the courtyard of the priory, and found there the men whom Montluc had promised me.
Now, with regard to this coat-of-arms," and he closed the book to detail to his stupefied companion the arms hardly visible on the cover, "do you see a wolf, which was originally of gold, and turtles of gales? Those are the arms which Montluc has borne since the year 1554, when he was made a citizen of Siena for having defended it so bravely against the terrible Marquis de Marignan.
"I consider my salon no place for intrigues with horse-boys. If you must hold colloquy with this fellow, take him whither he belongs to the stables." A laugh went up among those who laugh at whatever a duchess says. "Come, mesdames, we will resume our play," she added to the ladies who had followed her on the scene, and turned her back in lofty disdain on Mlle. de Montluc and her concerns.
As for the box," he took it in its turn to study it, "these are really the half-moons of the Piccolominis. But what does that prove? That after the siege, and just as it was necessary to retire to Montalcino, Montluc gave his prayer-book, as a souvenir, to some of that family. The volume was either lost or stolen, and finally reduced to the state in which it now is.
She sprang toward me as if to protect me with her body from some menacing thrust. "They shall not kill you!" she cried, her eyes flashing blue fire. "They shall not! Mon dieu! is Lorance de Montluc so feeble a thing that she cannot save a serving-boy?" She fell back a pace, pressing her hands to her temples as if to stifle their throbbing. "It was my fault," she cried "it was all my fault.
Blaise de Mo, and then a c, with several letters missing, just three, and that makes Montluc in the orthography of the time, and the b is in a handwriting which you might have examined in the archives of that same Siena, since you come from there.
"Yes; I follow M. de Montluc there. You see, old as I am, I have to begin life over again, and there is many a fair fortune yet waiting to be sliced out of the Romagna." She said never a word, and I continued: "It will be long ere I see France again perhaps never; and so, mademoiselle, I once more wish you all that is good, and I offer my congratulations I have not ventured to do so before."
He had magnified the subject with a view to forming a legend and to taking advantage of some rich, unversed amateur. On the other hand, if the name of Montluc meant absolutely nothing to him, it was not the same with the direct and brutal allusion which his interlocutor had made to the war of 1859. It is always a thorn in the flesh of those of our neighbors from beyond the Alps who do not love us.
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