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He spoke harshly, even aggressively, and as if combating some undeveloped argument of La Mothe's. A burst of temper may not convince a man's own conscience, or quiet its uneasiness, but it silences its voice for a time as declamation can always silence pleading. "Who are we to question his justice or deny its right to strike? And it is as his arm of justice that you are here in Amboise."
Down, Charlot, down! leave Monsieur La Mothe's parcel alone. You are always pushing your nose where it is not wanted. What have you in that napkin, Monsieur La Mothe?" "For your acceptance, Monseigneur " "Charles, not Monseigneur," said Ursula softly. "You will be calling me mademoiselle next!" "Hush, Ursula! I cannot hear what Monsieur La Mothe says if you keep chattering.
I thank God you are safe, I thank God he has given me back my son Stephen; but what am I to say to the King?" "Ho! ho!" said Villon; "so it is son Stephen nowadays? Then the play is almost played out?" "Most of all I blame you," and Commines, his arm still round La Mothe's shoulders, turned upon Villon in a swift access of passion.
Dropping him a little demure, mocking curtsy she turned and ran down the box-edged path, singing as she went, and the air she sang was Stephen La Mothe's "Heigh-ho! love is my life; Live I in loving and love I to live!" and the lilt of the music set Master Homer's heart throbbing. "There was a time," said Villon, "when I, too, could forget that rose arches are open at the ends.
"No, no, Villon, that is for the Dauphin alone that and the coat-of-mail no one else must use them." For a moment it seemed as if Villon, vexed at what he took to be a rebuke for presumption, would have pushed aside La Mothe's protesting hand, but with a shrug of his shoulders he gave way. "Perhaps you are right," he said, turning the edge of the awkwardness with a gibe.
Commines' answer was an upward shake of the head, a lifting of the shoulders hardly perceptible in the darkness. "It is the nature of curs to snarl," he said. "But his impertinence grows insufferable and must be muzzled." Linking his arm into La Mothe's he drew him slowly along the garden path.
"But the Dauphin?" "Your orders are cancelled, don't you remember? There is no longer any fear for the Dauphin. And if there was," she added half defiantly, "I would be here all the same." From the shadow of the pines La Mothe's captor rode slowly forward. "For what purpose, mademoiselle?"
And you, Stephen, you who were given a free hand in Amboise for this very thing, you who have spent your days in child's play Stephen, son" with a sudden gesture Commines put his hand across La Mothe's shoulder, drawing him almost into the hollow of his arm, and the cold severity passed from the hard voice "don't mistake me, don't think I scoff at to-day's danger, to-day's courage. No.
"They are being saddled this very moment," replied Jean Saxe, and then went on to paint out La Mothe's roseate dreams with the dull brush of realities. "Always," and he lowered his voice as he spoke, "whether by day or by night, you will find a horse waiting ready for your ride to Valmy. It is in the stall facing the door, monsieur.
Amboise has more need of friends than Landless of the Duchy of Lackeverything." The girl had risen slowly to her feet as she repeated La Mothe's words, and now as she paused the shadow again broke in lines of troubled care along her forehead. "Monsieur La Mothe, what was the end of the story you began last night?" "It has no end as yet.
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