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stories by english authors in france(旅法英国作家的故事)-第42部分
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him should he try to escape; he turned his horse's head into the path and
rode slowly along it; while we followed a few paces behind in double file。
The sun had set; and such light as remained fell cold and gray between
the trees。 The crackling of a stick under a horse's hoof; or the ring of a spur
against a scabbard; were the only sounds which broke the stillness of the
wood as we proceeded。 We had gone some little way when M。 Louis
halted; and; turning in his saddle; called to me。
〃M。 de Rosny;〃 he said;the light had so far failed that I could scarcely
see his face;〃I have a meeting with the Viscount de Caylus on Saturday
about a little matter of a lady's glove。 Should anything prevent my
appearance〃
〃I will see that a proper explanation is given;〃 I answered; bowing。
〃Or if M。 d'Entragues will permit me;〃 eagerly exclaimed the Gascon;
who was riding by my side; 〃M。 de Boisrose of St。 Palais; gently born;
through before unknown to him; I will appear in his place and make the
Viscount de Caylus swallow the glove。〃
〃You will?〃 said M。 Louis; with politeness。 〃You are a gentleman。 I am
obliged to you。〃
He waved his hand with a gesture which I afterward well remembered;
and; giving his horse the rein; went forward along the path at a brisk walk。
We followed; and I had just remarked that a plant of box was beginning
here and there to take the place of the usual undergrowth; when a sheet of
flame seemed to leap out through the dusk to meet him; and; his horse
rearing wildly; he fell headlong from the saddle without word or cry。 My
men would have sprung forward before the noise of the report had died
away; and might possibly have overtaken one or more of the assassins; but
I restrained them。 When La Trape dismounted and raised the fallen man;
the latter was dead。
Such were the circumstances; now for the first time made public;
which attended the discovery of this; the least known; yet one of the most
dangerous; of the many plots which were directed against the life of my
master。 The course which I adopted may be blamed by some; but it is
enough for me that after the lapse of years it is approved by my conscience
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and by the course of events。 For it was ever the misfortune of that great
king to treat those with leniency whom no indulgence could win; and I
bear with me to this day the bitter assurance that; had the fate which
overtook Louis d'Entragues embraced the whole of that family; the blow
which ten years later cut short Henry's career would never have been
struck。
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