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"Your longer reach is an advantage that you had from God, his longer sword is one he had from an armourer. Is that equality?" "He may have my sword, and I'll take his," cut in the Italian, also showing impatience. "I too am in haste." "In haste to die, then," snapped Gaubert. "Monsieur, this is not seemly," Courthon reproved him.
We had at this period a very great alarm at the chateau, caused by the crime of a man, who preferred rather to assassinate his wife than to allow her to dishonor him. It is worthy of narration. A pretty shopkeeper of Paris, named Gaubert, who lived in the rue de la Montagne Sainte- Genevieve, had recently married a woman much younger than himself.
In fact, he so managed to turn the head of this young woman, that she begged him to obtain for her a place in the king's favor. She pleased with an opportunity of injuring me, went to Paris, and betook herself incog. to the shop of madame Gaubert. She found her charming, and spoke of her to the duc de la Vrilliere, and both agreed to show her portrait to his majesty.
He understood the thing that had happened, the thing that already he suspected must have happened; but he understood too that he alone was to blame for it he and his cursed temper. "Who who fooled me?" he stammered. "Gaubert the fellow that calls himself Gaubert. He and his friends. They fooled you away.
M. D n and madame de Blessac Anecdote The rendezvous and the Ball The wife of Gaubert They wish to give her to the king Intrigues Their results Letter from the duc de la Vrilliere to the countess Reply Reconciliation
"Look you, Monsieur Gaubert," said Garnache quietly, "your opponent will be Monsieur Courthon, and since he is in his stockinged feet, there is no reason why you yourself should not remain so too. As for me, I retain my boots, and Monsieur Sanguinetti may have all the advantage that may give him. Since I am content, in Heaven's name let the fight go forward. I am in haste."
It was not until some days afterwards that the terror which pervaded the chateau ceased. They had found the body of the unfortunate Gaubert on the banks of the Seine. In spite of what had passed, the duc de la Vrilliere had the impudence to present himself to me. I treated him with disdain, reproaching him and Laugeac for their conduct. He left me in despair, and wrote me the following letter:
Gaubert could not be found, and it was feared that he would attempt some desperate deed. No one dared mention it to the king, but the captain of the guards and the first gentleman in waiting took every possible precaution; and when Louis XV asked for the young female who was to be brought to him, they told him that she had died of a violent distemper.
Unfortunately M. Gaubert had for cousin one of the valets of the king: this man, who knew the taste of his master, thought how he could best turn his pretty cousin to account. He spoke to her of the generosity of Louis XV, of the grandeur of Versailles, and of the part which her beauty entitled her to play there.
We had at this period a very great alarm at the chateau, caused by the crime of a man, who preferred rather to assassinate his wife than to allow her to dishonor him. It is worthy of narration. A pretty shopkeeper of Paris, named Gaubert, who lived in the rue de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, had recently married a woman much younger than himself.
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