Part 40 (1/2)
”To bring hi less, lad The count has been greatly wronged by Monsieur le Marquis, and it is to be set to rights forthwith Can you read?”
”Yes”
”Here is a letter which Monsieur le Cure wrote at Perigny It was frohter”
”God bless you, Monsieur,” cried the happy Breton He would have shouted for joy had not the quiet dignity of the old lackey put a damper on his enthusiasm
”Monsieur le Comte hen last you saw him?”
”Yes; physically”
”He is troubled?”
”Who would not be?” burst forth Breton, indignantly ”But why do you call Monsieur le Chevalier the count?”
”Is not that his title?” quietly
”But”
”Would Monsieur le Marquis take all this trouble if Monsieur le Chevalier was anything but Monsieur le Comte?”
”I shall offer a dozen candles!” cried Breton, joyously
Meantiovernor conducted the ether they stood upon the highest balcony and looked down upon the river, which was dotted with canoes and snificent!” repeated the ain
”And not even in the Cevennes, Monsieur, will you see such sunsets,”
said De Lauson
”This should not be overnor's quick, ”nor by the priest's cold hand It should be wholly the king's It would be France's salvation What are they doing there in Paris?”
”Spendingmasks at the Palais Royal”
”Richelieu died too soon; here would have been his fame” The marquis never underestimated an enemy ”If your Excellency will excuse me noill sleep I am an old man, and sleep calls to me often I will join you at supper”
”The ladies will be delighted There is but little here of the life of the court When we are not guarding against Indians, we are celebrating religious fetes”
”Till supper, then, your Excellency”
And the governor departed to read the es from the queen She had placed all Quebec at the disposal of the reatly mystified That the marquis should still call the Chevalier by his former title of count added to this mystery Since when did fathers set out for sons of the left hand? He soon gave up the riddle, confident that the marquis himself would solve it for him