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Fosseuse, who you say is a pearl of purity, ought to allow the doctors to penetrate into the secret of her illness." "Alas! it is not so." "What!" cried the queen; "is she not a pearl of purity?" "I mean that she persists in hiding the cause of her illness from the doctors." "But to you, sire, her confidant, her father." "I know nothing, or at least wish to know nothing."
Situation of Affairs in Flanders. Peace Brought About by Duc d'Alencon's Negotiation. Marechal de Biron Apologises for Firing on Nerac. Henri Desperately in Love with Fosseuse. Queen Marguerite Discovers Fosseuse to Be Pregnant, Which She Denies. Fosseuse in Labour. Marguerite's Generous Behaviour to Her. Marguerite's Return to Paris.
Fortune chose to favour the King's animosity; for, during the seven months that my brother stayed in Gascony, he conceived a passion for Fosseuse, who was become the doting piece of the King my husband, as I have already mentioned, since he had quitted Rebours.
We were no sooner there than Fosseuse persuaded the King my husband to make a journey to the waters of Aigues-Caudes, in Bearn, perhaps with a design to rid herself of her burden there. I begged the King my husband to excuse my accompanying him, as, since the affront that I had received at Pau, I had made a vow never to set foot in Bearn until the Catholic religion was reestablished there.
I removed Fosseuse, with all convenient haste, from the chamber in which the maids of honour were, to one in a more retired part of the palace, got a physician and some women about her, and saw that she wanted for nothing that was proper in her situation. It pleased God that she should bring forth a daughter, since dead.
The word Whiskers still stood its ground, and continued to be made use of in most of the best companies throughout the little kingdom of Navarre, notwithstanding the indiscreet use which La Fosseuse had made of it: the truth was, La Fosseuse had pronounced the word, not only before the queen, but upon sundry other occasions at court, with an accent which always implied something of a mystery And as the court of Margaret, as all the world knows, was at that time a mixture of gallantry and devotion and whiskers being as applicable to the one, as the other, the word naturally stood its ground it gained full as much as it lost; that is, the clergy were for it the laity were against it and for the women, they were divided.
For his part, he avoided me; he grew cold and indifferent, and since Fosseuse ceased to conduct herself with discretion, the happy moments that we experienced during the four or five years we were together in Gascony were no more. Peace being restored, and my brother departed for France, as I have already related, the King my husband and I returned to Nerac.
The minor characters and episodes, with the exception of the wonderful story or legend of Napoleon by Private Goguelat, and the private himself, are neither of the first interest, nor always carefully worked out: La Fosseuse, for instance, is a very tantalizingly unfinished study, of which it is nearly certain that Balzac must at some time or other have meant to make much more than he has made; Genestas, excellent as far as he goes, is not much more than a type; and there is nobody else in the foreground at all except the Doctor himself.
The Catholic nobility of the neighbourhood of Baviere used their utmost endeavours to divert my chagrin, for the month or five weeks that the King my husband and Fosseuse stayed at Aigues-Caudes.
Perceiving, by my tears and the expressions I made use of, that I should prefer even death to such a journey, he altered his intentions and we returned to Nerac. The pregnancy of Fosseuse was now no longer a secret. The whole Court talked of it, and not only the Court, but all the country. I was willing to prevent the scandal from spreading, and accordingly resolved to talk to her on the subject.
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