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One never knows how to trust you women. I return, bringing you fresh honors and more wealth, and yet, tete-Dieu! you receive me like an enemy. My new government will oblige me to make long absences until I can exchange it for that of Lower Normandy; and I request, my dear, that you will show me a pleasant face while I am here."
"Who is there?" cried a toothless voice. "Corps-Dieu! Tete-Dieu! Ventre-Dieu!" replied the captain. The door opened instantly, and allowed the new-corners to see an old woman and an old lamp, both of which trembled.
"Gentlemen," said the king, "know this, if by your help peace without distrust is once established, I will take upon myself the duty of making all subjects tremble. Tete-Dieu! it is time indeed for royalty to assert itself. My mother is right in that, at any rate. You ought to know that it is to your interest was well as mine, for your hands, your fortunes depend upon our throne.
"Hey! tete-Dieu! where has he hid himself?" cried the duke, reaching the rock beside which his son had been lying. "He is there," replied Bertrand, pointing to a narrow crevice, the edges of which had been polished smooth by the repeated assaults of the high tide. "Etienne, my beloved son!" called the old man. The hated child made no reply.
However, we must send for those Italians and question them. Tete-Dieu! I thought one Ruggiero in the kingdom was one too many, but it seems there are two. Now listen, my precious; you don't lack sense, you would make an excellent lieutenant of police, for you can penetrate things "
Tete-Dieu!" cried the old man, rising to his feet and casting a flaming glance at his three companions, "I'll arm my soldiers once more, and, with Maximilien at my side, Normandy shall " "Sit down, my good seigneur," said Beauvouloir, uneasy at seeing the duke give way to an excitement that was dangerous to a convalescent.
"You might be Satan the Hermit," replied Gudule, who was regaining hope, "but I should have nothing else to say to you, and I should never be afraid of you." "Tete-Dieu," said Tristan, "here is a crone! Ah! So the witch girl hath fled! And in which direction did she go?" Gudule replied in a careless tone, "Through the Rue du Mouton, I believe."
"Despise you, my pretty child!" replied the officer with an air of superior and distinguished gallantry, "despise you, tete-Dieu! and why?" "For having followed you!" "On that point, my beauty, we don't agree. I ought not to despise you, but to hate you." The young girl looked at him in affright: "Hate me! what have I done?" "For having required so much urging."
Grow strong! be well! I will show you how to ride a mare as pretty and gentle as yourself. Nothing shall ever thwart or trouble you. Tete-Dieu! all things bow to me as the reeds to the wind. I give you unlimited power. I bow to you myself as the god of the family." The father carried his son into the lordly chamber where the mother's sad existence had been spent.
The timid creature had too much purity and dignity to try, as some clever women would have done, to govern the count by putting calculation into her conduct, a sort of prostitution by which noble souls feel degraded. Silently she turned away, to console her despair with Etienne. "Tete-Dieu! shall I never be loved?" cried the count, seeing the tears in his wife's eyes as she left the room.
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