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Updated: May 22, 2025
It was not until the health of the King grew more menacing that he began to speak and be spoken to thereon. As for M. du Maine, despite his good fortune, he was not to be envied At Sceaux, where he lived, the Duchesse du Maine, his wife, ruined him by her extravagance.
The rest depends on the coachman. 'Did I not tell you, marchioness, said the regent, 'that Richelieu would give us good advice? Stop, duke, continued he; 'you must leave off wandering round certain palaces; leave the old lady to die quietly at St. Cyr, the lame man to rhyme at Sceaux, and join yourself with us.
The thing was not difficult to understand; the piece had been well studied. The Duchesse du Maine was sent for. The apparent reconcilement took place. The three were a long time together. To play out the comedy, M. and Madame du Maine still kept apart, but saw and approached each other by degrees, until at last the former returned to Sceaux, and lived with his wife as before.
I had a distaste for existence and a horror of the world, and desired nothing more than to hide myself away. A little pension had been secured for me; my mistress had fallen dangerously ill; I wished to leave Sceaux in order to run away from a new attachment which was gaining power over me; and the thought of entering a Carmelite house became a settled project.
She went several times to the "Bal de Sceaux" without seeing the young Englishman who had dropped from the skies to pervade and beautify her dreams.
It was at Sceaux, with its endless succession of entertainments and conversations supper-parties and water-parties, concerts and masked balls, plays in the little theatre and picnics under the great trees of the park that Madame du Deffand came to her maturity and established her position as one of the leaders of the society in which she moved.
But you cannot know the strange circumstances in which I find myself, and which are my excuse; if I could be happy enough to see you for an instant even for an instant you would understand that there are in me two different persons the young student of the attic, and the gentleman of the fetes at Sceaux. Open your window then, so that I may see you or your door, so that I may speak to you.
Five days hence, disguised as a gipsy, you are to be on the road from Sceaux to Versailles, at eleven o'clock at night, by the first milestone on the left side after the aeroplane garage.... You have followed me?" Bobinette was trembling. "Disguised as a gipsy, Vagualame? Why?" "That is no concern of yours!... You have only to do as I tell you. I give orders, but not explanations!"
By these petty means I gained a cheap applause from the belles and gallants at Sceaux, and Jerome opened not his lips to jibe me, as I feared, but like the rest, applauded. I had now quite regained my courage, but for the girl. I loved to think of her as but a girl; that she was also a wife I barred out of our castle in Spain. Why should I be afraid of such a timid child? Verily, I knew not.
Why should she suppose the drivers of these cars racing on their appointed way would stop, locate the cry, and succour her? No, it would but excite the anger of the bear, rouse it to action, thus hasten her own dreadful end!... A man was walking on the Sceaux road walking fast. He wore the clothes of a working man. He was leading a sorry nag.... The man halted and let the nag go free.
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