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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I wanted you, but it was best you should not stay and behold the depravity of your elders. It is about a woman. "May you come to a better throne than the unsteady one of France. "Your friend and servant, Etienne du Plessy. "Garlic is the spice of life, my boy!" I asked no questions about the affair in which he had been engaged. If he had wanted me to know he would have told me.
At Plessy I had heard all accents, Swiss, German, Italian; there was plenty of Parisian accent there, and I had told a Parisian flower-woman, whose husband was a Savoyard, that I declined to believe any more in the Southern accent "C'est une blague qu'on m'a faite"; but at Orelay I had discovered the true accent, and I listened to the old man for the sake of hearing it.
In the three weeks' time she had spent at Plessy before I came there, Doris had made the acquaintance of all kinds of elderly spinsters, who lived in the different hotels en pension, and who would go away as soon as the visitors arrived, to seek another "resort" where the season had not yet commenced, and where they could be boarded and bedded for ten francs a day.
"It is frightful this taking to buying whistles and blowing them in everybody's hearing. Lying in bed all day and playing at dominoes, like poor Lord Plessy, would be more private and bearable." "I see they are beginning to attack our friend Brooke in the 'Trumpet," said the Rector, lounging back and smiling easily, as he would have done if he had been attacked himself.
But I wrong you even by mentioning such an impossibility." "But you have shown it," said Faversham. His face was now grown of an extraordinary pallor, his lips twitched as he spoke and his fingers worked in a nervous uneasy manner upon the table-cloth. Captain Plessy was in far too complacent a mood to notice such trifles.
If the first emigrés had stayed at home and helped their king, they might have prevented the Terror." "The Marquis du Plessy stayed after the Tuileries was sacked. He found the queen's jewel-case, and saved it from confiscation to the state." "Where did he find it? Did you recognize the faces?" "Oh, instantly!"
I shall always see you beautiful, whereas Plessy may lose her beauty in a few days. Let me enjoy it while I may." "Perhaps I shall not outlast Plessy." "Yes, you will. Do you know, Doris, that you don't look a day older since the first time I saw you walking across the room to the piano in your white dress, your gold hair hanging down over your shoulders. It has darkened a little, that is all."
Now as he dipped his shoulders in the bow a gleam of light struck over his head into the cellar, and he could not be sure but it seemed to him that he saw a man suddenly raise his arm as if to ward off a blow. Captain Plessy continued.
Dear little town, town of my heart, where the local orchestra plays "The March of Aida" and "La Belle Helene"! If I could inoculate you, reader, with the sentiment of the delicious pastoral you would understand why, all the time I was at Plessy, I looked upon myself as a hero of legend, whether of the Argonauts or the siege of Troy matters little.
"Because I discovered that he carried with him a casket of the martyred queen's jewels, stolen from the Marquis du Plessy." "How did the Marquis du Plessy obtain possession of the queen's jewels?" "That I do not know." "But the jewels are the lawful property of Madame d'Angoulême. He must have known they would be seized." "I thought it necessary to bring my evidence against him, monsieur."
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