Part 8 (2/2)
”He certainly does not occupy it, since he has not yet arrived; but, once disembarked, he will occupy it”
”Oh! oh!”
”It is quite clear you are not acquainted with the English; they have a perfect rage for ”
”That may be; but a man who has the whole of one house, is satisfied with it, and does not require two”
”Yes, but two men?”
”Be it so; for two men, two houses, or four or six, or ten, if you like; but there are a hundred houses at Le Havre”
”Yes, and all the hundred are let”
”Impossible!”
”What an obstinate fellow you are I tell you Buckingha the one which the queen dowager of England and the princess her daughter will inhabit”
”He is singular enough, indeed,” said De Wardes, caressing his horse's neck
”Such is the case, however, monsieur”
”You are quite sure of it, Monsieur de Manicamp?” and as he put this question, he looked slyly at De Guiche, as though to interrogate hiree of confidence to be placed in his friend's state of ht had closed in, and the torches, pages, attendants, squires, horses, and carriages, blocked up the gate and the open place; the torches were reflected in the channel, which the rising tide was gradually filling, while on the other side of the jettyof sailors and townspeople, who see of the spectacle Ah a perfect stranger to the scene, remained on his horse soht reflected on the water, inhaling with rapture the sea breezes, and listening to the waves which noisily broke upon the shore and on the beach, tossing the spray into the air with a noise that echoed in the distance ”But,” exclai such a supply of lodgings?”
”Yes, yes,” said De Wardes; ”what reason has he?”
”A very excellent one,” replied Manicamp
”You knohat it is, then?”
”I fancy I do”
”Tell us, then”
”Bend your head doards me”
”What! e of that yourself”
”Very well” De Guiche bent down
”Love,” said Manicamp
”I do not understand you at all”
”Say rather, you cannot understand me yet”
”Explain yourself”
”Very well; it is quite certain, count, that his royal highness will be the most unfortunate of husbands”
”What do you ham-”
”It is a name of ill omen to the princes of the house of France”
”And so the duke is madly in love with Madame, so the rumor runs, and will have no one approach her but himself”
De Guiche colored ”Thank you, thank you,” said he to Manica himself, added, ”Whatever you do, Manicaham's is not made known to any Frenchman here; for, if so, many a sould be unsheathed in this country that does not fear English steel”
”But after all,” said Manicaiven me of the love in question, and it may be no more than an idle tale”
”No, no,” said De Guiche, ”it must be the truth;” and despite his command over himself, he clenched his teeth
”Well,” said Manicamp, ”after all, what does it matter to you? What does itwas? Buckinghaham the son for the princess”
”Manicamp! Manicamp!”
”It is a fact, or at least, everybody says so”
”Silence!” cried the count
”But why, silence?” said De Wardes; ”it is a highly creditable circumstance for the French nation Are not you of elonne?”
”To what circuelonne with an abstracted air
”That the English should render hoe to the beauty of our queens and our princesses”
”Forgiveattention to what has passed; will you oblige ”
”There is no doubt it was necessary that Buckingham the father should co Louis XIII, should perceive that his as one of the most beautiful women of the French court; and it seeham the son should consecrate, by the devotion of his worshi+p, the beauty of a princess who has French blood in her veins The fact of having inspired a passion on the other side of the Channel will henceforth confer a title to beauty on this”