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Updated: May 12, 2025
Madame Riano might furnish food for laughter in Paris and London and Brabant, but her debts were always promptly paid; she lived splendidly, but without waste, and she always had more money in her pocket than those who laughed at her. She was kind, if patronizing, to Count Saxe, and acted as if I were rather the more important of the two.
Even the little parish priest joined us. Madame Riano scowled at our laughter, until Count Saxe, with his usual good judgment, told her we were laughing at the bishop, at which she screeched with delight. I was not surprised next morning to find that the bishop was leaving earlier than he expected.
This sudden passion of Madame Riano for Scotland was very embarrassing for Mademoiselle Capello, because it would almost force her to seek the protection of a husband, as she had no intention of forsaking her home in Brabant. I do not think this decision of Madame Riano's seemed to trouble Gaston Cheverny very deeply, although he candidly admitted what the consequences would be.
I noticed she was much less dictatorial to Mademoiselle Capello than one would expect; and I shrewdly suspected that Madame Riano knew Francezka was of a nature not to be driven, and chose rather to abate some of her arrogance before this young girl.
I never saw the least want of hospitality or affection for Regnard on Gaston's part. He was as generous a soul as I ever knew. As for Jacques Haret, he openly said he had only given up his quarters at the château of Capello because he could not wear the clothes of either Madame Riano or Mademoiselle Capello.
Madame Riano received us in her usual state, which was lofty, for one of the merits which Madame Riano possessed in common with Francezka was a perfect capacity for affairs.
Victory perched first on one banner and then on the other, but I must say the lady got rather the best of it. I should say that the bishop was the better strategist; but for determined, head-long valor, Madame Riano surpassed him.
Such is the way ardent young men talk. Then I asked what had been burning on my tongue ever since he entered the room. What of the ladies at the château of Capello meaning Francezka, but naming Madame Riano first. "Madame Riano is the same Peggy Kirkpatrick. The warfare between her and the Bishop of Louvain is grown more bloody and desperate than ever. Quarter is neither asked nor given.
This brought down the house, and Lafarge stuttered: "I I was not thinking of protecting Madame Riano it was the majesty of the law that was being outraged the king " "Ah! You were protecting the king, then," cried the Grand Prieur.
This staggered Madame Riano, for she had once actually sent such a message to the bishop, who had the prudence to desist from his fulminations against her. But like a crafty general, Madame Riano was able to collect her scattered forces, after an onslaught, and still make trouble for her adversary. "I do not know to what you allude, and I should still like to know where you got those clothes."
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