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"Madame," began Gaston, in great confusion, but Jacques Haret was not a whit confused and took the words out of Gaston's mouth: "From the wardrobe of Gaston Cheverny just half an hour ago." Madame Riano looked a trifle abashed, but rallied when Jacques Haret said impudently, taking out meanwhile a snuff-box of Gaston's, "And I put on all my finer feelings with these clothes.
Madame Riano had urged Francezka to join her in Paris, but Francezka declined to leave Brabant for two reasons why she must not stir from home; that Gaston, if living, might find her there; and if he were dead, she preferred the seclusion of her own home to the gaiety of Paris. In the spring of 1737 Madame Riano was seized with the notion of going to England again.
When she went to court she had six horses. The days on which I saw Mademoiselle Capello were well marked in my memory. I never forgot the hour, nor the place, nor whether the sun shone, nor if she looked well or ill. Once on a soft and lovely evening I saw her sitting opposite Madame Riano in the coach, as it rolled over the Pont Neuf. The young lady leaned forward and smiled and bowed to me.
I remember she wore a pale flowered silk, with sleeves that fell back from her elbow, and she, too, had a hat on, but it might have been worn by one of Watteau's shepherdesses. Both the ladies gave me kindly greeting. Madame Riano began to ask me something about Chambord. "I suppose Count Saxe will have forty or fifty of his ladies there this bout," remarked this terrible old Scotch woman.
He had then acquired the habit of lying late abed, except when he was in the field. Then he never slept at all, so his enemies said. Madame Riano had threatened to accompany us back to Paris, but we were not sure whether she would go or not. Paris dragged her one way, the hope of meeting the Bishop of Louvain and triumphing over him, dragged her the other.
So, meeting him to-day, as I say, in the gardens of the Palais Royal, and bringing him home with me in fact, asking him to come and sup with us, for his entertainment always pays for his supper, you perceived the reception he got from my lady Francezka and Madame Riano. Now, what am I to do?"
So, I am in control of my niece, very much as you, Count Saxe, are Duke of Courland: we both have the papers that is, if Babache still has your rescript under his shirt, but neither one of us could precisely enforce our authority." This was the only gibe Madame Riano threw at us during the whole journey. Often, when Mademoiselle Capello rode, she called me to her side.
I think you will find Madame Riano at the palace, and may resume your journey to-morrow." "Then," cried Francezka, rather crossly, "the only real danger seems to be from the toads in the tunnel! Come, Monsieur Cheverny, let us begin our promenade."
The burning soot had tumbled down the chimney, and if the bishop and Madame Riano had left their play long enough there would have been no damage done to anything. I do not believe Madame Riano was so absorbed in her game as not to know what was going on, but I am pretty sure she had in mind the punishment of the bishop.
Francezka, with sparkling eyes, called her maid, Elizabeth an elderly woman, sister of Peter, and who seemed as happy to see her as was Madame Riano and the two disappeared together. When Francezka came out again she was dressed in a robe of pale blue stuff, with a gauze kerchief folded across her beautiful white neck, and looked like a rose in bloom.
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