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Doubtless your family will be the more inclined to aid you with their influence, but there must be somebody to urge them to do so." "Besides, Amelie," the colonel put in, "we must not cage the lad here at your apron strings. He has already won Saxe's regard and protection by his conduct in the field, and can now accept a commission in the old regiment.
But I think it would be an abuse of Count Saxe's indulgence to keep you here. I can not, as Mademoiselle Capello, go in search of Gaston Cheverny. I shall have to assemble my friends and neighbors and announce to them my marriage. Then I shall provide myself with a stout traveling chaise and travel to Hüningen, and search and search until I find my best beloved."
It made a hole in Count Saxe's military chest to pay it; but when was he ever backward in handing out money when he had it, or could get it from some one else? And the services of eleven men, when time was so precious to us, could ill be spared; but Count Saxe took no note of these things. He talked a little longer with the Russian, who had a German name, Schnelling.
So strong was the feeling of apprehension upon me that I rose quietly, slipped on my clothes, and opened the door to Count Saxe's room. He was lying in his bed, sound asleep. The window was wide open for the night had been uncomfortably warm.
Count Saxe had been in a quandary about inviting Gaston Cheverny to resume his old place as aide-de-camp. There could be no doubt that Gaston merited much from Count Saxe, as it was owing to Count Saxe's own imprudence in remaining unguarded at Hüningen that Gaston Cheverny had been lost to life and love for seven years. Yet my master felt toward him the same coldness of heart that I did.
No woman ever forgives a man for being more prudent than she, and although I swear I know nothing of Count Saxe's affairs with the ladies, I will admit this, that he was not reckoned a prudish man exactly. When he returned to the schloss, and with mirth and heartfelt joy told me of the thing, my reply was to go and examine the drawbridge.
And then there passed across my path, a figure in a ragged black cloak a figure with the face of Gaston Cheverny. I followed him, but I seemed to be following a ghost; for in the tangle of streets and lanes, he was lost to me. I spent two full hours hunting this shade; but had it been actually a ghost it could not have disappeared more completely. I went to Count Saxe's quarters.
It is my firm belief that the King has evidence he cannot show openly " God in heaven! is that justice?" "It will be enough if Saxe's lies cannot be disproved?" "If Saxe cannot be disproved," corrected Commines. "I cannot admit that Saxe lies." "And what then?" Again Commines turned away. Humanity's Iron Age was as stern, as selfish, as callous, as cruel as in the days of Attila the Hun.
Her courage was in truth greater than Madame Riano's, for madame loved battle; Francezka did not love it, neither did she fear it. She accepted Count Saxe's hand, and he led her across the courtyard and up the stairway, where she disappeared within the door, first making a curtsy to us all as well as to Count Saxe. My master came down the stairway three steps at a time.
With the Duke of Berwick went Count Saxe's old friend, the Duc de Noailles and Count Saxe himself, then camp marshal. The Duke of Berwick was very great as a man and a soldier, and everybody knows the high esteem in which he held Count Saxe of which I will speak in its true place. I am ashamed to say what a figure the army made on its march to Strasburg.
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