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"Often, I confess, rumour may swell the importance of such an affaire, but in this case I do not think that rumour does it justice." I made a deprecatory gesture, and I would have had the subject changed, but ere I could make an effort to that end, the fool Saint-Eustache was babbling again. "You remember the duel that was fought in consequence, Monsieur de Lesperon?" "Yes," I assented wearily.
And Didine once out of the way," he went on, talking to himself, "I will treat Maman Cardot to a call and a novelette: I have seduced her Felicie at Saint-Eustache Felicie, guilty through passion, bears in her bosom the pledge of our affection and larifla, fla, fla! the father Ergo, the notary, his wife, and his daughter are caught, nabbed "
There are some things that a man of breeding may not witness some things to look upon which is near akin to eavesdropping or reading the letters of another. Such a scene did I now account the present one, and, turning, I moved away. But Saint-Eustache cut it short, for scarce had I taken three paces when his voice rang out the command to move.
For if I made an enemy of the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache by humbling him in the eyes of the one woman before whom he sought to shine, I established a bond 'twixt Roxalanne and myself by that same humiliation of a foolish coxcomb, whose boastfulness had long wearied her. In the days that followed I saw much of the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache.
I'll swear it was not thus they had looked to find me. They pushed their way into the room, impelling Saint-Eustache forward, and there were greetings exchanged and felicitations, whilst Chatellerault, curbing his disorder, drew the Chevalier into a corner of the room, and stood there listening to him. At length I heard the Count exclaim "Do as you please, Chevalier.
And that, in short, was how it came to pass that the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache himself, by disposing for my destruction, disposed only for his own.
"For me," said the King, "these depositions were not necessary. Your word, my dear Marcel, would have sufficed. For the courts, however, perhaps it is well that you have had them taken; moreover, they form a valuable corroboration of the treason which you lay to the charge of Monsieur de Saint-Eustache."
Very softly he closed the door; softly, yet painfully, he hobbled forward to my side. "There is a plot to murder you, monseigneur," he whispered. "What! Here at Blagnac?" He nodded fearfully. "Bah!" I laughed. "You rave, man. Who was to know that I was to come this way? And who is there to plot against my life?" "Monsieur de Saint-Eustache." he answered.
For all that he was full of dread of the result and of the vengeance Saint-Eustache might wreak boy though he was he expressed himself freely touching the Chevalier's behaviour and the fittingness of the punishment that had overtaken him. The Vicomtesse stood in small awe of her husband, but his judgment upon a point of honour was a matter that she would not dare contest.
And so everything if we except perhaps the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache conspired to the advancement of my suit, in a manner that must have made Chatellerault grind his teeth in rage if he could have witnessed it, but which made me grind mine in despair when I pondered the situation in detail.
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