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The same sensible grandfather, having different views on the subject of education from those manifested by Catherine de Medici towards her children, had the boy taught to run about bare-headed and bare-footed, like a peasant, among the mountains and rocks of Bearn, till he became as rugged as a young bear, and as nimble as a kid.
"We will!" they cried, and there was a ring in their voices that spoke of an iron determination to succeed. "And we," said young Henry of Bearn, "will die with you. Not one of your leaders will leave the field except as a victor. It is victory or death for all of us." At these brave words the cheering broke out afresh, and my comrade, turning to me, exclaimed, "The battle is won already!
For then he had been the handsome, wealthy, witty, profligate Secretary of State to His Catholic Majesty King Philip II, with a power in Spain second only to the King's, and sometimes even greater. In those days he would have welcomed her as her endowments merited. She was radiantly lovely, in the very noontide of her resplendent youth, the well-born widow of a gentleman of Bearn.
The reader will recollect the deep doubt into which that most pacific governor was thrown on Killian Van Rensellaer's taking possession of Bearn Island by wapen recht.
"Congratulate me, sire; I have found my godmother." "Ah, so much the better." "And who," asked the king, with impatience, "may the lady be?" "Madame de Bearn, a lady of quality in her own right, and of high nobility on her husband's side." "Yes, he was a garde du corps, and the son has just left the pages. Ah! she will present you then. That's well; I shall feel favored by her."
And yet I now felt a certainty that this was the case. The presence of La Varenne, the confidant of his intrigues, while it informed me of the cause of the journey, convinced me that his Majesty had given way to the sole weakness of his nature, and was bent on one of those adventures of gallantry which had been more becoming in the Prince of Béarn than in the King of France.
'This place, madam, was the work of my ancestors, said he, 'and you must allow me to say, that your present conversation discovers neither good taste, or good manners. Blanche, now shocked at an altercation, which appeared to be increasing to a serious disagreement, rose to leave the room, when her mother's woman entered it; and the Countess, immediately desiring to be shewn to her own apartment, withdrew, attended by Mademoiselle Bearn.
There was not to be a stone on a stone: and it was so. Gaston of Béarn slapped his thigh when he heard of this: 'Now, he said, 'now at last I know what ails my King. He has seen his lost mistress. He did so ruthlessly in Normandy that he went far to make his power a standing dread to the fair duchy.
This was shewed me in the country of Bearn in the earl of Foix's house by a knight named John of Chateauneuf, who was taken prisoner at the same journey under the banner of the earl of March and Dunbar: and he greatly praised the said earl, for he suffered him to pass in manner as he desired himself.
"Will you tell me that your three damned Musketeers, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and your youngster from Bearn, have not fallen, like so many furies, upon poor Bernajoux, and have not maltreated him in such a fashion that probably by this time he is dead?
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