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第144章 'LE ROI EST MORT!'(3)

Here I found myself under no greater constraint than that which my own parole laid upon me;and my room having the conveniency of a window looking upon the public street,I was enabled from hour to hour to comprehend and enter into the various alarms and surprises which made that day remarkable.The manifold reports which flew from mouth to mouth on the occasion,as well as the overmastering excitement which seized all,are so well remembered,however,that I forbear to dwell upon them,though they served to distract my mind from my own position.Suffice it that at one moment we heard that His Majesty was dead,at another that the wound was skin deep,and again that we might expect him at Meudon before sunset.The rumour that the Duchess de Montpensier had taken poison was no sooner believed than we were asked to listen to the guns of Paris firing FEUX DE JOIE in honour of the King's death.

The streets were so closely packed with persons telling and hearing these tales that I seemed from my window to be looking on a fair.Nor was all my amusement withoutdoors;for a number of the gentlemen of the Court,hearing that I had been at St.Cloud in the morning,and in the very chamber,a thing which made me for the moment the most desirable companion in the world,remembered on a sudden that they had a slight acquaintance with me,and honoured me by calling upon me and sitting a great part of the day with me.From which circumstance I confess I derived as much hope as they diversion;knowing that courtiers are the best weather-prophets in the world,who hate nothing so much as to be discovered in the company of those on whom the sun does not shine.

The return of the King of Navarre,which happened about the middle of the afternoon,while it dissipated the fears of some and dashed the hopes of others,put an end to this state of uncertainty by confirming,to the surprise of many,that His Majesty was in no danger.We learned with varying emotions that the first appearances,which had deceived,not myself only,but experienced leeches,had been themselves belied by subsequent conditions;and that,in a word,Paris had as much to fear,and loyal men as much to hope,as before this wicked and audacious attempt.

I had no more than stomached this surprising information,which was less welcome to me,I confess,than it should have been,when the arrival of M.d'Agen,who greeted me with the affection which he never failed to show me,distracted my thoughts for a time.

Immediately on learning where I was and,the strange adventures which had befallen me he had ridden off;stopping only once,when he had nearly reached me,for the purpose of waiting on Madame de Bruhl.I asked him how she had received him.

'Like herself,'he replied with an ingenuous blush.'More kindly than I had a right to expect,if not as warmly as I had the courage to hope.'

'That will come with time,'I said,laughing.'And Mademoiselle de la Vire?'

'I did not see her,'he answered,'but I heard she was well.And a hundred fathoms deeper in love,'he added,eyeing me roguishly,'than when I saw her last.'

It was my turn to colour now,and I did so,feeling all the pleasure and delight such,a statement was calculated to afford me.Picturing mademoiselle as I had seen her last,leaning from her horse with love written so plainly on her weeping face that all who ran might read,I sank into so delicious a reverie that M.la Varenne,entering suddenly,surprised us both before another word passed on either side.

His look and tone were as abrupt as it was in his nature,which was soft and compliant,to make them.'M.de Marsac,'he said,'I am sorry to put any constraint upon you,but I am directed to forbid you to your friends.And I must request this gentleman to withdraw.'

'But all day my friends have come in and out,'I said with surprise.'Is this a new order?'

'A written order,which reached me no farther back than two minutes ago,'he answered plainly.'I am also directed to remove you to a room at the back of the house,that you may not overlook the street.'

'But my parole was taken,'I cried,with a natural feeling of indignation.

He shrugged his shoulders.'I am sorry to say that I have nothing to do with that,'he answered.'I can only obey orders.

I must ask this gentleman,therefore,to withdraw.'

Of course M.d'Agen had no option but to leave me;which he did,I could see,notwithstanding his easy and confident expressions,with a good deal of mistrust and apprehension.When he was gone,La Varenne lost no time in carrying out the remainder of his orders.As a consequence I found myself confined to a small and gloomy apartment which looked,at a distance of three paces,upon the smooth face of the rock on which the Castle stood.This change,from a window which commanded all the life of the town,and intercepted every breath of popular fancy,to a closet whither no sounds penetrated,and where the very transition from noon to evening scarcely made itself known,could not fail to depress my spirits sensibly;the more as I took it to be significant of a change in my fortunes fully as grave.

Reflecting that I must now appear to the King of Navarre in the light of a bearer of false tidings,I associated the order to confine me more closely with his return from St.Cloud;and comprehending that M.de Turenne was once more at liberty to attend to my affairs,I began to look about me with forebodings which were none the less painful because the parole I had given debarred me from any attempt to escape.

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