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Trescorre was no longer able to check her extravagance, and his influence with the Duke being on the wane, the court was once more the scene of unseemly scandals and disorders.
The current was as swift as it was smooth, and he felt himself hurried forward to an end he could no longer escape. He took the pen which Trescorre handed him, and signed the constitution. The meeting over, he summoned Gamba. He felt the need of such encouragement as the hunchback alone could give. Fulvia's enthusiasms were too unreal, too abstract.
Trescorre in fact possessed the art of putting younger men at their ease, while appearing as an equal among his elders: a gift doubtless developed by the circumstances of court life, and the need of at once commanding respect and disarming diffidence.
"Nothing could better have served Trescorre; for opposition spurred the Marquess's languid temper, and he had now the incredible folly to take up his residence in the lodge. Within three weeks the fever held him. He was at once taken to Pianura, and on recovering from his seizure was sent to take the mountain air at the baths of Lucca. But the poison was in his blood.
"I hope I have done as well. At any rate the day is over." Trescorre returned the smile, with his usual tinge of irony. "Another has already begun," said he. "Ah," said Odo, with a touch of impatience, "are we not to sleep on our laurels?" Trescorre bowed. "Austria, your Highness, never sleeps." Odo looked at him with surprise. "What do you mean?" "That I have to remind your Highness "
Odo told him that Count Trescorre had passed, but without perceiving him. The Duke seemed relieved. "My private actions," said he querulously, "are too jealously spied upon by my ministers. Such surveillance is an offence to my authority, and my subjects shall learn that it will not frighten me from my course."
Throughout the conference, which was brief and formal, Odo had been conscious of a subtle change in the ministerial atmosphere. Instead of the current of resistance against which he had grown used to forcing his way, he became aware of a tacit yielding to his will. Trescorre had apparently withdrawn his opposition to the charter, and the other ministers had followed suit.
In the evening to the theatre, a handsome building, well-lit with wax, where Cimarosa's Due Baroni was agreeably sung. The 4th. My lord Hervey, in Florence, having favoured me with a letter to Count Trescorre, the Duke's prime minister, I waited on that gentleman yesterday.
Trescorre then obtained his appointment as assistant to the Duke's librarian, a good old priest engrossed in compiling the early history of Pianura from the ducal archives; and this post Gamba had now filled for two years. "It must," said Odo, "be one singularly congenial to you, if, as I have heard, you are of a studious habit.
The irony of circumstances had forced them upon each other, and each knew that the other understood the situation and was prepared to make the best of it. The Duke presently rose, and handed back to Trescorre the reports of the secret police. They were the documents he most disliked to handle. "You have acquitted yourself admirably of your disagreeable duties," he said with a smile.
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