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"But, mother," he cried, "between the dignity of La Vauvraye and the indignity of Tressan, surely there is some middle course?" "Aye," she answered scornfully, "starvation on a dunghill in Touraine or something near akin to it, for which I have no stomach."
It drove the colour from his cheeks and brought great lines of fearful care into sharp relief about his mouth and eyes. "Madame, we are ruined!" he groaned. "Tressan," she answered him contemptuously, "you are chicken-hearted. Listen to me. Did he not say that he had left his man behind him when he came to Condillac? Where think you that he left his man?"
Bailly had said in his éloge on M. de Tressan: "French gaiety produces the same effect as stoicism." These words occurred to my memory at the time when I was gathering from various sources the proof that on reëntering the Conciergerie after his condemnation, Bailly showed himself at once both gay and stoical. He desired his nephew, M. Batbéda, to play a game at piquet with him as usual.
The promise was accompanied, as well on the part of the king as on that of M. de Tressan, with assurance of esteem and respect, with which I was extremely flattered; and I felt on this occasion that the esteem of men who are themselves worthy of it, produced in the mind a sentiment infinitely more noble and pleasing than that of vanity.
Bailly was nominated member of the French Academy in the place of M. de Tressan, in November, 1783. The same day, M. de Choiseul Gouffier succeeded to D'Alembert. Thanks to the coincidence of the two nominations, Bailly escaped the sarcasms which the expectant academicians never fail to pour out, with or without reason, against those who have obtained a double crown.
Tressan smiled uneasily, and chewed at his beard. "No effort shall be spared," he promised her. "Of that you may be very sure.
I come to you on an errand of Her Majesty's, as this my warrant will apprise you." And he proffered the paper he held, which Tressan accepted from his hand. A change was visible in the wily Seneschal's fat countenance.
From his desk across the room the secretary, idly chewing the feathered end of his goose-quill, took silent stock of the man from Paris, and wondered. Tressan folded the paper carefully, and returned it to its owner.
Sanguinetti stood apart, his manner haughty and impressive, his eye roaming scornfully through the ranks of what had by now become a crowd. Windows were opening in the street, and heads appearing, and across the way Garnache might have beheld the flabby face of Monsieur de Tressan among the spectators of that little scene. Rabecque drew near his master. "Have a care, monsieur," he implored him.
I alleged my religion; this she told me was no obstacle, or if it was one she engaged to remove it. I answered, that however great the honor of becoming a member of so illustrious a body might be, having refused M. de Tressan, and, in some measure, the King of Poland, to become a member of the Academy at Nancy, I could not with propriety enter into any other.
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