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The Portygees remaining with him even Johnny Lark, the cook had been in a most unhappy temper all the way back from Boston on the last trip. Tunis could depend upon Mate Chapin, Boatswain Newbegin, and 'Rion Latham himself to stick by the schooner.
As all three approached the door of the chamber, filled with company, the Cardinal de Noailles said aloud to the cure, that he had very worthily done his duty, that he expected nothing less from such a good, experienced, and enlightened man as he was; that he praised him for what he had demanded before administering the sacrament to Madame la Duchesse de Berry; that he exhorted him not to give in, or to suffer himself to be deceived upon so important a thing; and that if he wanted further authorisation he, as his bishop, diocesan, and superior, prohibited him from administering the sacraments, or allowing them to be administered, to Madame la Duchesse de Berry while Rion and Madame de Mouchy were in the chamber, or even in the Luxembourg.
Ambition of Rion. He Marries the Duchess. She Determines to Go to Meudon. Rion Sent to the Army. Quarrels of Father and Daughter. Supper on the Terrace of Meudon. The Duchess Again Ill. Moves to La Muette. Great Danger. Receives the Sacrament. Garus and Chirac. Rival Doctors. Increased Illness. Death of the Duchess. Sentiments on the Occasion. Funeral Ceremonies. Madame de Saint-Simon Fails Ill.
The tug of the steering chains to starboard was even then thrilling the cords of his hands and arms with an almost electric shock. 'Rion watched him slyly. He knew the impression he was making on the old man's superstitious mind. He played upon it as he did upon the childish minds of some of the Portygee seamen. So Captain Tunis Latham did not arrive in Boston in a very calm frame of mind.
'Rion Latham was saying to me he believed Peke never meant the money should go all one way. The Medway Lathams, them 'Rion belongs to, is all as sore as carbuncles about Tunis getting it. But I tell Tunis as long as the court says the money should be his, let 'Rion and all them yap like the hungry dogs they be. Tunis has got the marrer bone."
He asked if there were any letters for M. Isidor de Rion." "Good gracious," cried Edith, "what an aristocratic name for that fat man." "Anyhow, it was effective.
The maxim of M. de Lauzun was, that the Bourbons must be ill- used and treated with a high hand in order to maintain empire over them. Madame de Mouchy was as strongly in favour of this marriage as Rion. She knew she was sure of her lover, and that when he became the husband of Madame la Duchesse de Berry, all the doors which shut intimacy would be thrown down.
As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.
These circumstances were for the time carefully hidden. It may be imagined what a state Rion fell into in learning at the army the death of Madame la Duchesse de Berry. All his romantic notions of ambition being overturned, he was more than once on the point of killing himself, and for a long time was always kept in sight by his friends. He sold out at the end of the campaign.
"Ask him," repeated Johnny Lark. "He is cousin of our captain. He knows if anybody knows what is the trouble with the Seamew." And he shook his head. Eunez stared at him. "You know something you do not tell me, Juan?" "Ask 'Rion Latham," the cook said again, and left her at the door of the church.
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