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But Mlle. de Tavanne's quick tongue robbed him of his answer. "Marry, you are severe on him, Lorance. To be sure he does not come himself, but he sends so gallant a messenger!" Mademoiselle glanced at me with hard blue eyes. "That is the greatest insult of all," she said. "I could forgive and forget his absence; but I do not forgive his despatching me his horse-boy."
"We fell into a nest of sorcerers and arrested two, compatriots of yours, who may perhaps be able to explain to the minds of French gentlemen how you, who are not Frenchmen, have managed to lay hands on two of the chief offices of the Crown," replied Tavannes, half jesting, half in earnest. "But the king?" inquired the Grand-master, who cared little for Tavanne's enmity.
Not Grammont's brutality, not Lucas's venom, not Mlle. de Tavanne's rampant suspicion, had ever frightened me so horribly as did Mayenne's amiable composure. He made me feel as I had felt when I entered the tunnel, helpless in the dark, unable to cope with dangers I could not see. Mayenne was a well, the light shining down its sides a way, and far below the still surface of the water.
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