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Updated: May 12, 2025
He was an ordinary looking elderly man, still retaining something of his soldier's life about him, but the look in his eyes always went to the heart like a poniard. Afterward I heard why this was so. I saw Madame Riano often enough driving in or out of her courtyard in her great purple and gold coach, with her purple and canary postilions and four cream-colored horses.
"I can not inform you on that point, brother," replied Father Benart, "I have not cognizance of all Madame Riano says and does." "She is a great trial of my patience," said the bishop. "She is the thorn in my flesh like unto the one that St. Paul prayed seven times that he might be delivered from.
It is vain to expect of a man separated from you for seven years, and but three and thirty years of age, the same sensibility he had when he was six and twenty and had spent many preceding years in your company." This was true, and I had often said so to myself, so I told Madame Riano.
We had promises enough, and even votes enough to elect Count Saxe Duke of Courland, if only he could have put his hand on ten thousand stout soldiers, to make the election good. The Russians very rightly paid no attention to the pretensions of the Holsteiners, and the Hessians, and the rest of the crown snatchers, as Madame Riano had called them.
"I will," I interrupted. "'And it shall go hard if he be not punished, she said. "When Madame Riano heard of it she was for mounting a-horseback and going in search of Jacques Haret. One thing, however, we may reasonably count on that Jacques Haret shall one day pay for this." "Undoubtedly," I replied.
Francezka Capello was not for me, nor I for her but that was no reason why I should not love her as one loves a star. "And why does not Madame Riano keep a closer watch over her?" he demanded angrily, as if I had something to do with it.
I understood why old Peter had put the extra place at the table. Jacques was better dressed than usual, and, as always, handsome and at his ease. Madame Riano, who had ever a sneaking tolerance for the fellow, received him civilly, as did the others present.
"Well, then," replied the soldier, laughing, "why doesn't the Countess Margarita Riano del Valdozo y Kirkpatrick keep an eye on her niece, Mademoiselle Francezka Capello del Medina y Kirkpatrick, instead of letting her play with these little vagabonds of actors? But, my old cock, I think you are lying so here goes!"
The better we came to know Madame Riano the more we saw to esteem in her, in spite of her extraordinary pride and everlasting blowing of the trumpet of the Kirkpatricks and her general desire to dominate the universe.
It was at once stopped by a Russian officer, but we saw that he permitted Madame Riano to alight, and another person a slim young figure in a crimson mantle and that, I knew, was Francezka Capello. There was a parley between Madame Riano and the officer, but he escorted her and Mademoiselle Capello to the drawbridge, Gaston Cheverny standing his ground until the ladies were well in the courtyard.
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