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Updated: June 29, 2025
And," she added, as she turned to greet the Vidame and the Marquis, "I wished that all Paris should think that I was with M. de Montriveau." The Duke flung up his hands, struck them together in despair, and folded his arms. "Then, cannot you see what will come of this mad freak?" he asked at last.
We would defeat the Vidame yet! Things were going better! But then something in her manner as she stood holding the door and peering into the room something in her bearing startled and frightened me. As she came forward her movements were so stealthy that her footsteps made no sound. Her dark shadow, moving ahead of her across the floor, was not more silent than she.
Why should we not put spurs to our horses and ride off? "Impossible!" said Pavannes quietly, when I spoke. "Why?" I asked with warmth. "Firstly," he replied, "because I have given my word to go with the Vidame to Cahors." My face flushed hotly. But I cried, "What of that? You were taken by treachery! Your safe conduct was disregarded. Why should you be scrupulous? Your enemies are not.
While the Vidame was speaking we had turned from the terrace and were nearing the Mazet which diminutive of the Provençal word mas, meaning farm-house, is applied to the farm establishment at Vièlmur partly in friendliness and partly in indication of its dependence upon the great house, the Château.
"But, my dear, I have just been told that all she is able to keep is twenty-five thousand francs a year, and what is that to her?" "Penury!" "Yes, she has robbed herself for Natalie. Monsieur de Manerville has been so exacting " "Extremely exacting," put in Maitre Solonet. "But before long he will be peer of France. The Maulincours and the Vidame de Pamiers will use their influence.
Their leader all but rode over a child, and would certainly have done so had I not made a long arm and pushed it aside. There was no doubt of it, the leading horseman was my brother Simon, the Vidame d'Orrain, and I thanked my good star that, owing to the dusk, the bustle, and the pace he was going at, he did not recognise me. Something, however, struck him, for twice he turned back to look.
It is certain, however, that these titles emanated from landed creations, and that in their origin they had functions attached to them, which, they have since outlived. There is thus no comparison between the title of vidame, which only marks a vassal, and the titles which by fief emanate from the King.
I said hoarsely. "I mean that mademoiselle will die if the Vidame reaches Paris, and I shall be lost!" And with this she flung herself back in her chair, and began rocking herself backwards and forwards like a thing distraught, muttering to herself: "I shall be lost! I shall be lost!"
"Mademoiselle!" cried the Vidame suddenly. We all looked up. His tone was such that the colour fled from Kit's face. There was something in his voice she had never heard in any voice before something that to a woman was like a blow. "Mademoiselle," he snarled, "is expecting news from Cahors, from her lover. I have the honour to congratulate M. de Pavannes on his conquest." Ah! he had guessed it!
It is sad to have to sketch so hackneyed a portrait, for has it not figured everywhere and become, literally, as threadbare as that of a grenadier of the Empire? But the vidame had an influence on Monsieur de Maulincour's destiny which obliges us to preserve his portrait; he lectured the young man after his fashion, and did his best to convert him to the doctrines of the great age of gallantry.
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