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He then told me that Regnard, as usual, had timed his visit to Brabant, so the brothers could be there together, and half laughing and half chagrined, told me that Regnard, in his white Austrian uniform, was very captivating to the eye. And they both desired Francezka, who laughed at all suitors to her hand.
As soon as peace was assured this agent received orders from Regnard Cheverny to sell Castle Haret, which he presently did, for a good round sum. It was known soon after that Regnard had resigned from the Austrian army and had accepted a high command in the East India Company's army in British India.
She might lap her soul in Elysium, and dream dreams, and entertain love with magnificence, but she always knew where her footing was, and what she actually did would not be waited on by repentance. Then I made inquiry about Regnard Cheverny. "My brother, I think, has made up his mind to take service with the Austrians under Prince Eugene, and I believe he will in time become an Austrian.
Their arms were around each other's shoulders, schoolboy fashion, and both of them wore long dark cloaks, for the hour before the dawn was chill. Never were two figures more alike than Gaston and Regnard Cheverny, and there was not the smallest difference in their gait and bearing.
For, Babache, I believe now, do not laugh at me, Babache, and say it is my Scotch blood that makes me superstitious but but " she paused a moment, and then said in a whisper, "I believe Regnard Cheverny's soul has got into Gaston Cheverny's body."
She moved her horse up close to me so she could whisper in my ear. "Because he is always seeking my company; and because, in truth, I have more than enough of his now." "Is that ground for ill-treating a man?" I asked. "Assuredly, if a woman mislikes him as I mislike Monsieur Regnard Cheverny." "But you show great good-will toward Monsieur Gaston Cheverny and they are as like as two peas."
Regnard Cheverny, like his brother, was no man of milk and water, and once seen, was likely to be remembered. But I soon perceived that their souls were as unlike as their bodies were like. It is true, I had seen Gaston Cheverny only once, but the circumstances of that meeting were not to be forgotten. I am not given to sudden loves, but I had loved Gaston Cheverny at first sight.
Old Peter, you must know, was a retainer of my family, and served with my father under Marshal Villars, and that is how, my estate being gone bought by Regnard Cheverny, brother of Gaston and Peter coming to Paris, he took service with Peggy Kirkpatrick. He had known the Capello family in Brabant." Jacques Haret commonly told the truth about these things and so I knew it to be true.
Jacques would sometimes take a laughing but advisatory tone with Regnard. "Do not, my dear fellow," he would say, "be eaten up with ambition to shine before kings. I remember once, in my childhood, the Duc d'Orleans, the king's brother, came to Brabant, and was to dine at Castle Haret. All sorts of things were to be done. In the lake there was to be an island, from which concealed music played.
This time he allowed me to spend in Brabant, and also gave Gaston Cheverny leave; and Gaston inviting, or rather commanding me to become his guest, we had a whole fortnight at the Manoir Cheverny. Regnard went to his own castle of Haret. He civilly entreated me to visit him, but Gaston putting in his claim strongly to all my time, I was, very willingly, driven to decline.
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