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From the time that her own attendants were dismissed, the only person appointed to assist Cléry in his duties were a man and woman named Tison, chosen for that task on account of their surly and brutal tempers, in which the wife exceeded her husband.
"Hush!" interrupted Tison, commandingly, "I am not your 'dear woman, I am the wife of Citizen Tison, and I want none of your confidence, for confidence from such persons as you are, might easily bring me to the scaffold."
Clery did not devote himself exclusively to the service of the Dauphin; for there were at first few, and latterly no other servants than himself, except a man named Tison, and his wife, who did the rough work of the chambers for a time. The way in which the royal prisoners passed their days, for some few months, was as follows: The king rose at six in the summer, and at seven as winter came on.
Upton, Tison trotting at their heels, took walks together, passing down the steep old streets, austere and cheerful, to the gardens and along the wide avenue with its lines of trees and broad strip of turf, on and out to the bridge that spanned the river.
They had had a little leisure at noon for dinner, and during the interim Simon and Tison were on guard, and had kept the queen on the rack with their mockery and their abusive words. In order to avoid the language and the looks of these men, she had fled into the children's room, to whom the princess, in her trustful calmness and unshaken equanimity, was assigning them lessons.
Before the affair is discovered, there will be at least seven hours' advantage and the royal family will be able, with the passes already secured by M. Jarjayes, to be a long way off before their flight will be discovered by Tison. In a secure house, whither Toulan will lead them, the royal family will find simple citizen's clothing.
The queen uttered a loud shriek of horror, sprang up, and raised both her hands in conjuration to Heaven, while a curse just trembled on her lips. But Princess Elizabeth threw herself into her arms, and pressed on the cold, quivering lips of the queen a long, fervent kiss. "For God's sake, sister," she whispered, "speak softly. If Tison heard your cry, we are lost.
"It is enough for me to have to bear these indignities go, my son, accompany your aunt." The dauphin stood up, pressed a kiss upon the hand of his mother, and followed the two princesses, who had gone into the adjoining apartment. "Dear aunt," whispered the dauphin, "is this bad man the good friend who " "Hush!" whispered Madame Elizabeth, "hush! Madame Tison is listening."
"And when you can," she said, "just touch the Austrian woman a little, and pay her off for being so many hours unwatched. In that way you will merit a reward from the people, and that is as well as deserving one of God. Provoke her provoke the proud Austrian!" "It is very hard to do it," said Tison, sighing "very hard, I assure you, for the Austrian is very cold and moderate of late.
The poems of Villon produce the impression of some bleak, desolate landscape of snow-covered roofs and frozen streets, shut in by mists, and with a menacing shiver in the air. It is sur la morte saison, Que les loups se vivent de vent, Et qu'on se tient en sa maison, Pour le frimas, près du tison.
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