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Updated: June 29, 2025
The Duchesse de Maufrigneuse had lost her heart to Victurnien after first giving her mind to a serious study of him. Any lover who should have caught the glance by which she expressed her gratitude to the Vidame might well have been jealous of such friendship.
My father, René, Vidame d'Orrain, was twice married. By his first wife he had one son, Simon, who subsequently succeeded to his title and estates, and was through his life my bitter enemy. By his second wife, whom he married somewhat late in life, he had two sons the elder, Anne, known as the Chevalier de St. Martin from his mother's lands, which he inherited; and the younger, Bertrand myself.
"I have just come from Mme de Langeais' house; the servants say that she is out." "Then a great misfortune has happened, no doubt," returned the Vidame, "and through your fault. I left the Duchess at your door " "When?" "At a quarter to eight." "Good evening," returned Montriveau, and he hurried home to ask the porter whether he had seen a lady standing on the doorstep that evening.
"You keep madame waiting, Monsieur le Vidame," I said, "and her business is of vital import." He was about to answer when La Valentinois placed her hand on his arm, and muttering something under his breath, Simon turned and led her up the stairway, all bowing as though she were the Queen.
The dowager, a tender-hearted, pious woman, sitting between God and her vidame, a model of grace and sweetness, but gifted with that well-bred persistency which triumphs in the long run, had longed to preserve for her grandson the beautiful illusions of life, and had therefore brought him up in the highest principles; she instilled into him her own delicacy of feeling and made him, to outward appearance, a timid man, if not a fool.
After another silence, the King called the Duc de Liria, who uncovered himself, and with a reverence approached the King; by whom he was thus addressed: "Go and see if the Vidame de Chartres is not somewhere about here."
'He is still young; he may reform, said Merton, 'and no doubt a pure affection will be the saving of him. 'So Matilda believes, but, though a Protestant his ancestors having left France after the Revocation of the Edict of Nancy Nantes I mean I am certain that he is not under conviction. 'Why does he call himself Vidame, "the Vidame de la Lain"? asked Merton. 'It is an affectation, said Mrs.
Then the chief took notes and promised, Vidocq and his spies aiding, to send in a report within a few days to the Maulincour family, assuring them meantime that there were no secrets for the police of Paris. A few days after this the police official called to see the vidame at the Hotel de Maulincour, where he found the young baron quite recovered from his last wound.
She grasped his hand tightly in hers, suffered him to kiss her on either cheek, and begged him to go at once. He must not watch her movements nor try to protect her. "But the people passing in the street," he objected. "No one can fail in respect to me," she said. It was the last word spoken by the Duchess and the woman of fashion. The Vidame went.
"Do you leave Francis and another at the gate, Gil. Marie, keep within sight, lad. And let Croisette stay with me." These preparations made and they took up scarcely a moment I met the Vidame at the head of the ramp. "Mademoiselle de Caylus," I said, bowing, "is, I regret to say, indisposed to-day, Vidame." "She will not see me?" he asked, eyeing me very unpleasantly.
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