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Eustacie had dispatched her motherly cares promptly enough to be with him again just as in taking off his corselet he had found that it had been pierced by a bullet, and pursuing the trace, through his doublet, he found it lodged in that purse which he had so long worn next his heart, where it had spent its force against the single pearl of Ribaumont.
And after this he proposed to go to La Rochelle, and make inquiries for a trusty messenger who could be sent to England to seek out the family of the Baron de Ribaumont, or, mayhap, a sufficient escort with whom the lady could travel; though he had nearly made up his mind that he would not relinquish the care of her until he had safely delivered her to her husband's mother.
Eustacie winced a little at hearing of the character that had been fastened upon her; she disliked for her child, still more than for herself, to take this bourgeois name of Gardon; but there was no help for it, since, though he chief personages of the town were Huguenot, there could be no safety for her if the report were once allowed to arise that the Baronne de Ribaumont had taken refuge there.
It is like a breath from Montpipeau the last days of hope before the frenzy the misery. 'Whenever your Majesty does me the honour began Berenger, forgetting all except the dying man. 'I am not so senseless, interrupted the King sharply; 'it would be losing the only chance of undoing one wrong. Only, Ribaumont, he added fervently, 'for once let me hear that one man has pardoned me.
The most hateful heights of perfidy, effeminacy, and hypocrisy were not reached till poor Charles IX., who only committed crimes on compulsion, was in his grave, and Henry III. on the throne; but Narcisse de Ribaumont was one of the choice companions of the latter, and after the night and day of murder now stood before his sister with scented hair and handkerchief the last, laced, delicately held by a hand in an embroidered glove emerald pendants in his ears, a moustache twisted into sharp points and turned up like an eternal sardonic smile, and he led a little white poodle by a rose-coloured ribbon.
The lad stood taken by surprise for a moment, thinking that Tithonus must have looked just like this, and skipped like this, just as he became a grasshopper; then he recollected that this must be the Chevalier de Ribaumont, and tried to make up for his want of cordiality.
'You have seen and danced with Diane de Ribaumont, answered Eustacie, still coldly; 'but what of that? Let me go, Monsieur; you have cast me off already. 'I! when all this has been of your own seeking? 'Mine? cried Eustacie, panting with the struggle between her dignity and her passionate tears. 'I meddled not.
'Scarcely, replied the Duchess; but, with a smile, 'I had the honour to see you married. 'Ah, then, Eustacie glowed, almost smiled, though a tear was in her eyes 'you can see how like my little one is to her father, a true White Ribaumont.
She has all the fair loveliness that belongs of right to your mother's grandchild, but her eye, blue as it is, has the Ribaumont spirit; the turn of the head and the smile are what I loved long ago in yonder lady, and, above all, she is her own sweet self. Berenger, give me your daughter Berangere, and I ask no portion with her but the silver bullet.
M. de Ribaumont can tell you that abbeys are no such securities in these days. Let yonder Admiral get the upper hand, and we shall see Mericour, the happy cadet of eight brothers and sisters, turned adrift from their convents. What a fatherly spectacle M. le Marquis will present!
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