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"Yes, pray, accursed woman!" cried the baron; "your prayer is so much the more generous from your being, I swear to you, in the power of a man who will never pardon you!" and he went out.
That knife, which the fatal prudence of the baron deprived me of, because he knows the use I would make of it!
"If he tells the baron," said she, "I am lost--for the baron, who knows very well that I shall not kill myself, will place me before him with a knife in my hand, and he will discover that all this despair is but acted."
The baron entered slowly, sending a scrutinizing glance from Milady to the young officer.
"You demanded a favor?" said the baron, suspiciously.
"You hear him!" cried Milady, with vehemence, so that the baron might believe she was addressing heaven, and that Felton might understand she was addressing him.
The baron took the young officer by the arm, and turned his head over his shoulder, so as not to lose sight of Milady till he was gone out.
The baron has just related a frightful story to me."Milady assumed her smile of a resigned victim, and shook her head.
She knew she had only two days left; that when once the order was signed by Buckingham--and Buckingham would sign it the more readily from its bearing a false name, and he could not, therefore, recognize the woman in question--once this order was signed, we say, the baron would make her embark immediately, and she knew very well that women condemned to exile employ arms much less powerful in their seductions than the pretendedly virtuous woman whose beauty is lighted by the sun of the world, whose style the voice of fashion lauds, and whom a halo of aristocracy gilds with enchanting splendors.
"Well," said the baron, on leaving her "you will not escape tonight!"
The baron, attracted by the noise, in his chamber gown, his sword under his arm, stood in the doorway.
So soon as she was left alone with the woman whom the baron had summoned to her assistance she opened her eyes.
Was Felton, suspected by the baron, about to fail her at the decisive moment?
She inquired if the baron was still at the castle.
She cast a glance at the door; the baron had had a plank nailed over the grating.
CERTES, if the knife had been left in her power, she would now have thought, not of killing herself, but of killing the baron.
With these words the baron went out.
"Why didn’t the baron come himself?" demanded Buckingham.
"Without remorse," said he."The baron knows, as well as myself, that Milady de Winter is a very guilty woman, and it is treating her very favorably to commute her punishment to transportation."
Lord de Winter placed him in the hands of the guards, who led him, while awaiting further orders, to a little terrace commanding the sea; and then the baron hastened to the duke’s chamber.
See the state in which he has put me.""Oh, my Lord!" cried the baron, "I shall never console myself."
The baron went out sobbing.
what have you done?""I have avenged myself!" said he."Avenged yourself," said the baron.
"One last favor, my Lord!" said he to the baron.
The baron drew out his watch.
The baron came forward.
"Yes," said the baron, "assassinated.
The contrary happens in kingdoms governed like that of France, because one can easily enter there by gaining over some baron of the kingdom, for one always finds malcontents and such as desire a change.
Nevertheless, if any one should ask of me how comes it that the Church has attained such greatness in temporal power, seeing that from Alexander backwards the Italian potentates (not only those who have been called potentates, but every baron and lord, though the smallest) have valued the temporal power very slightly—yet now a king of France trembles before it, and it has been able to drive him from Italy, and to ruin the Venetians—although this may be very manifest, it does not appear to me superfluous to recall it in some measure to memory.
There were as yet no tidings of Gurth and his charge, which should long since have been driven home from the forest and such was the insecurity of the period, as to render it probable that the delay might be explained by some depreciation of the outlaws, with whom the adjacent forest abounded, or by the violence of some neighbouring baron, whose consciousness of strength made him equally negligent of the laws of property.
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