There were merriment and music in the court, the hall, the staircase, the saloons of state! All that France held of beautiful, and bright, and brave, and wise, and noble, were gathered to the presence of their king. And there were many there,146 well-known and honored in those olden days; well-known and honored ever after. The first, in person as in place, was the great king! the proud, and chivalrous16, and princely! becoming his high station at all times and in every place; wearing his state right gracefully17 and freely—the second Henry!—and at his side young Francis, the king-dauphin; with her, the cynosure19 of every heart, the star of that fair company—Scotland’s unrivalled Mary hanging upon his manly20 arm, and gazing up with those soft, dovelike eyes, fraught21 with unutterable soul, into her husband’s face—into her husband’s spirit. Brissac was there, and Joyeuse, and Nevers; and Jarnac, the renowned22 for skill in fence, and Vielleville; and the cardinal23 Lorraine, and all the glorious Guises24 and Montmorenci, soon to be famous as the slayer25 of his king, and every peer of France, and every peerless lady.
Loud peeled the exulting26 symphonies; loud sang the chosen minstrelsey—and as the gorgeous sunbeams rushed in a flood of tinted27 lustre28 through the rich many-colored panes29 of the tall windows, glancing on soft voluptuous30 forms and eyes that might outdazzle their own radiance, arrayed in all the pomp and pride of that magnificent and stately period—a more resplendent scene could scarcely be imagined. That was a day of rich and graceful18 costumes, when men and warriors32 thought it no shame to be adorned33 in silks and velvets, with chains of goldsmith’s work about their necks, and jewels in their ears, and on their hatbands, buttons, and buckles35, and swordhilts; and if such were the sumptuous36 attire37 of the sterner and more solid sex, what must have been the ornature of the court ladies, under the gentle sway of such a being as Diane de Poictiers, the lovely mistress of the monarch38, and arbitress of the soft follies39 of the court?
The palace halls were decked with every fanciful variety, some in the pomp of blazoned40 tapestries41, with banners rustling147 from the cornices above the jocund42 dancers, some filled with fresh green branches, wrought43 into silver arbors, sweet garlands perfuming the air, and the light half excluded or tempered into a mild and emerald radiance by the dense44 foliage45 of the rare exotics. Pages and ushers46 tripped it to and fro, clad in the royal liveries, embroidered47 with the cognizance of Henry, the fuigist salamander, bearing the choicest wines, the rarest cates, in every interval48 of the surrounding dance. It would be tedious to dwell longer on the scene; to multiply more instances of the strange mixture, which might be witnessed everywhere, of artificial luxury with semibarbarous rudeness—to specify49 the graces of the company, the beauty of the demoiselles and dames50, the stately bearing of the warrior31 nobles, as they swept back and forth51 in the quaint52 mazes53 of some antiquated54 measure, were a task to be undertaken only by some old chronicler, with style as curious and as quaint as the manners he portrays55 in living colors. Enough for us to catch a fleeting56 glimpse of the grand pageantry! to sketch57 with a dashy pencil the groups which he would designate with absolute and accurate minuteness!
But there was one among that gay assemblage, who must not be passed over with so slight a regard, since she attracted on that festive58 day, as much of wondering admiration59 for her unequalled beauties as she excited sympathy, and fear, in after-days, for her sad fortunes—but there was now no cloud upon her radiant beauty, no dimness prophetic of approaching tears in her large laughing eyes, no touch of melancholy60 thought upon one glorious feature—Marguerite de Vaudreuil, the heiress of a ducal fortune, the heiress of charms so surpassing, that rank and fortune were forgotten by all who gazed upon her pure, high brow, her dazzling glances, her seductive smile, the perfect symmetry of her whole shape and person! Her hair, of the darkest auburn shade, fell in a thousand ringlets, glittering148 out like threads of virgin61 gold when a stray sunbeam touched them, fell down her snowy neck over the shapely shoulders and so much of a soft, heaving bosom62—veined by unnumbered azure63 channels, wherein the pure blood coursed so joyously—as was displayed by the falling laces which decked her velvet34 boddice. Her eyes, so quick and dazzling was their light, almost defied description, possessing at one time the depth and brilliance66 of the black, melting into the softer languor67 of the blue—yet they were of the latter hue68, and suited truly to the whole style and character of her voluptuous beauty. Her form, as has been noticed, was symmetry itself; and every movement, every step, was fraught with natural and unstudied grace. In sooth, she seemed almost too beautiful for mere69 mortality—and so thought many a one who gazed upon her, half drunk with that divine delirium70 which steeps the souls of men who dwell too steadfastly71 upon such wondrous charms, as she bounded through the labyrinth72 of the dance, lighter73 and springier than the world-famed gazelle, or rested from the exciting toil74 in panting abandonment upon some cushioned settle! and many inquired of themselves, could it be possible that an exterior75 so divine should be the tenement76 of a harsh, worldly spirit—that a demeanor77 and an air so frank, so cordial, and so warm, should be but the deceptive78 veil that hid a selfish, cold, bad heart. Ay, many asked themselves that question on that day, but not one answered his own question candidly79 or truly—no! not one man!—for in her presence he had been more or less than mortal, who could pronounce his sentence unmoved by the attractions of her outward seeming.
For Marguerite de Vaudreuil had been but three short months before affianced as the bride of the young Baron80 de La-Hirè—the bravest and best of Henry’s youthful nobles. It had been a love-treaty—no matter of shrewd bartering81 of hearts—no cold and worldly convenance—but the outpouring, as it149 seemed, of two young spirits, each warm and worthy82 of the other!—and men had envied him, and ladies had held her more fortunate in her high conquest, than in her rank, her riches, or her beauties; and the world had forgotten to calumniate83, or to sneer84, in admiration of the young glorious pair, that seemed so fitly mated. Three little months had passed—three more, and they had been made one!—but in the interval Charles de La-Hirè, obedient to his king’s behest, had buckled85 on his sword, and led the followers86 of his house to the Italian wars. With him, scarcely less brave, and, as some thought, yet handsomer than he, forth rode upon his first campaign, Armand de Laguy, his own orphaned87 cousin, bred like a brother on his father’s hearth88; and, as Charles well believed, a brother in affection. Three little months had passed, and, in a temporary truce89, Armand de Laguy had returned alone, leading the relics90 of his cousin’s force, and laden91 with the doleful tidings of that cousin’s fall upon the field of honor. None else had seen him die, none else had pierced so deeply into the hostile ranks; but Armand had rushed madly on to save his noble kinsman92, and failing in the desperate attempt, had borne off his reward in many a perilous93 wound. Another month, and it was whispered far and near, that Marguerite had dried her tears already; and that Armand de Laguy had, by his cousin’s death, succeeded, not to lands and to lordships only, but to the winning of that dead cousin’s bride. It had been whispered far and near, and now the whisper was proved true. For on this festive day young Armand, still pale from the effects of his exhausting wounds, and languid from loss of blood, appeared in public for the first time, not in the sable94 weeds of decent and accustomed wo, but in the gayest garb95 of a successful bridegroom—his pourpoint of rose-colored velvet strewn thickly with seed-pearl and broideries of silver, his hose of rich white silk, all slashed96 and lined with cloth of silver, his injured arm150 suspended in a rare scarf of the lady’s colors, and, above all, the air of quiet confident success with which he offered, and that lovely girl received, his intimate attentions, showed that for once, at least, the tongue of rumor98 had told truth.
Therefore men gazed in wonder—and marvelled99 as they gazed, and half condemned100!—yet they who had been loudest in their censure101 when the first whisper reached their ears of so disloyal love, of so bold-fronted an inconstancy, now found themselves devising many an excuse within their secret hearts for this sad lapse102 of one so exquisitely103 fair. Henry himself had frowned, when Armand de Laguy led forth the fair betrothed104, radiant in festive garb and decked with joyous64 smiles—but the stern brow of the offended prince had smoothed itself into a softer aspect, and the rebuff which he had determined—but a second’s space before—to give to the untimely lovers, was frittered down into a jest before it left the lips of the repentant105 speaker.
The day was well-nigh spent—the evening banquet had been spread, and had been honored duly—and now the lamps were lit in hall, and corridor, and bower106; and merrier waxed the mirth, and faster wheeled the dance. The company were scattered107 to and fro, some wandering in the royal gardens, which overspread at that day most of the Isle108 de Paris; some played with cards or dice65; some drank and revelled109 in the halls; some danced unwearied in the grand saloons; some whispered love in ladies’ ears in dark sequestered110 bowers—and of these last were Marguerite and Armand—a long alcove111 of thick green boughs112, with orange-trees between, flowering in marble vases, and myrtles, and a thousand odorous trees, mingling113 their perfumed shadows, led to a lonely bower, and there alone, in the dim starlight—alone indeed! for they might now be deemed as one, sat the two lovers. One fair hand of the frail114 lady was clasped in the bold suitor’s right, while his left151 arm, unconscious of its wound, was twined about her slender waist; her head reclined upon his shoulder, with all its rich redundancy of ringlets floating about his neck and bosom, and her eyes, languid and suffused115, fondly turned up to meet his passionate116 glances. “And can it be,” he said, in the thick broken tones that tell of vehement117 passion, “and can it be that you indeed love Armand? I fear, I fear, sweet beauty, that I, like Charles, should be forgotten, were I, like Charles, removed: for him thou didst love dearly, while on me never didst thou waste thought or word.”
“Him—never, Armand, never!—by the bright stars above us—by the great gods that hear us—I never—never did love Charles de La-Hirè—never did love man, save thee, my noble Armand. False girlish vanity and pique118 led me to toy with him at first; now to my sorrow I confess it—and when thou didst look coldly upon me, and seemedst to woo dark Adeline de Courcy, a woman’s vengeance119 stirred up my very soul, and therefore to punish thee, whom only did I love, I well nigh yielded up myself to torture by wedding one whom I esteemed120 indeed and honored, but never thought of for one moment with affection; wilt121 thou believe me, Armand?”
“Sweet angel, Marguerite!” and he clasped her to his hot, heaving breast, and her white arms were flung about his neck, and their lips met in a long fiery122 kiss.
Just in that point of time—in that soft melting moment—a heavy hand was laid quietly on Armand’s shoulder—he started, as the fiend sprang up, revealed before the temper of Ithuriel’s angel weapon—he started like a guilty thing from that forbidden kiss.
A tall form stood beside him, shrouded124 from head to heel in a dark riding-cloak of the Italian fashion; but there was no hat on the stately head, nor any covering to the cold stern impassive features. The high broad forehead as pale as sculptured152 marble, with the dark chestnut125 curls falling off parted evenly upon the crown—the full, fixed126, steady eye, which he could no more meet than he could gaze unscathed on the meridian127 sun, the noble features, sharpened by want and suffering and wo—were all! all those of his good cousin.
For a moment’s space the three stood there in silence—Charles de La-Hirè reaping rich vengeance from the unconquerable consternation128 of the traitor129! Armand de Laguy bent130 almost to the earth with shame and conscious terror! and Marguerite half dead with fear, and scarcely certain if indeed he who stood before her were the man in his living presence, whom she had vowed131 to love for ever; or if it were but the visioned form of an indignant friend returned from the dark grave to thunderstrike the false disturbers of his eternal rest.
“I am in time”—he said at length, in accents slow and unfaltering as his whole air was cold and tranquil—“in time to break off this monstrous132 union!—Thy perjuries133 have been in vain, weak man; thy lies are open to the day. He whom thou didst betray to the Italian’s dungeon—to the Italian’s dagger134—as thou didst then believe and hope—stands bodily before thee.”
A long heart-piercing shriek135 burst from the lips of Marguerite, as the dread136 import of his speech fell on her sharpened fears—the man whom she had loved—first loved!—for all her previous words were false and fickle137—stood at her side in all his power and glory—and she affianced to a liar138, a base traitor—a foul139 murderer in his heart!—a scorn and byword to her own sex—an object of contempt and hatred140 to every noble spirit!
But at that instant Armand de Laguy’s pride awoke—for he was proud, and brave, and daring!—and he gave back the lie, and hurled defiance141 in his accuser’s teeth.
153 “Death to thy soul!” he cried; “’tis thou that liest, Charles! Did I not see thee stretched on the bloody142 plain? did I not sink beside thee, hewed143 down and trampled144 under foot, in striving to preserve thee? And when my vassals145 found me, wert thou not beside me—with thy face scarred, indeed, and mangled146 beyond recognition—but with the surcoat and the arms upon the lifeless corpse147, and the sword in the cold hand? ’Tis thou that liest, man!—’tis thou that, for some base end, didst conceal148 thy life, and now wouldst charge thy felonies on me; but ’twill not do, fair cousin! The king shall judge between us! Come, lady”—and he would have taken her by the hand, but she sprang back as though a viper150 would have stung her.
“Back, traitor!” she exclaimed, in tones of the deepest loathing151; “I hate thee—spit on thee—defy thee! Base have I been myself, and frail, and fickle; but, as I live, Charles de La-Hirè—but as I live now, and will die right shortly—I knew not of this villany! I did believe thee dead, as that false murtherer swore—and—God be good to me!—I did betray thee dead; and now have lost thee living! But for thee, Armand de Laguy—dog! traitor! villain152! knave153!—dare not to look upon me any more; dare not address me with one accent of thy serpent-tongue! for Marguerite de Vaudreuil, fallen although she be, and lost for ever, is not so all abandoned as, knowing thee for what thou art, to bear with thee one second longer—no! not though that second could redeem154 all the past, and wipe out all the sin—”
“Fine words, fine words, fair mistress! but on with me thou shalt!”—and he stretched out his arm to seize her, when, with a perfect majesty155, Charles de La-Hirè stepped in and grasped him by the wrist, and held him for a moment there, gazing into his eye as though he would have read his soul; then threw him off with a force that made him stagger back ten paces before he could regain156 his footing. Then, then, with all the fury154 of the fiend depicted157 on his working lineaments, Armand unsheathed his rapier and made a full longe, bounding forward as he did so, right at his cousin’s heart; but he was foiled again—for with a single, and, as it seemed, slight motion of the sheathed158 broadsword which he held under his cloak, Charles de La-Hirè struck up the weapon, and sent it whirling through the air to twenty paces’ distance.
Just then there came a shout, “The king! the king!”—and, with the words, a glare of many torches, and with his courtiers and his guard about him, the monarch stood forth in offended majesty.
“Ha! what means this insolent159 broil160? What men be these who dare draw swords within the palace precincts?”
“My sword is sheathed, sire,” answered De La-Hirè, kneeling before the king, and laying the good weapon at his feet—“nor has been ever drawn161, save at your highness’ bidding, against your highness’ foes162. But I beseech163 you, sire, as you love honesty and honor, and hate deceit and treason, grant me your royal license164 to prove Armand de Laguy recreant165, base, traitorous166, a liar, and a felon149, and a murtherer, hand to hand, in the presence of the ladies of your court, according to the law of arms and honor!”
“Something of this we have heard already,” replied the king, “Baron de La-Hirè. But say out, now: of what accuse you Armand de Laguy? Show but good cause, and thy request is granted; for I have not forgot your good deeds in my cause against our rebel Savoyards and our Italian foemen. Of what accuse you Armand de Laguy?”
“That he betrayed me, wounded, into the hands of the duke of Parma; that he dealt with Italian bravos to compass my assassination167; that by foul lies and treacherous168 devices he has trained from me my affianced bride; and last, not least, deprived her of fair name and honor. This will I prove upon his body,155 so help me God and my good sword!”
“Stand forth and answer to his charge, De Laguy—speak out! what sayest thou?”
“I say,” answered Armand, boldly—“I say that he lies! that he did feign169 his own death, for some evil ends, and did deceive me, who would have died to succor170 him; that I, believing him dead, have won from him the love of this fair lady, I admit—but I assert that I did win it fairly, and of good right; and, for the rest, I say he lies doubly when he asserts that she has lost fair name or honor! This is my answer, sire; and I beseech you grant his prayer, and let us prove our words, as gentlemen of France, and soldiers, forthwith, by singular battle!”
“Amen!” replied the king. “The third day hence, at noon, in the tiltyard, before our court, we do adjudge the combat—and this fair lady be the prize of the victor!—”
“No, sire!” interposed Charles de La-Hirè, again kneeling; but before he had the time to add a second word, Marguerite de Vaudreuil, who had stood all the while with her hands clasped, and her eyes riveted171 upon the ground, sprang forth with a great cry.
“No! no! for God’s sake! no! no! sire—great king—good gentleman—brave knight11! doom172 me not to a fate so dreadful. Charles de La-Hirè is all that man can be of good, or great, or noble; but I betrayed him, whom I deemed dead, and he can never trust me living! Moreover, if he would take me to his arms, base as I am and most false-hearted, he should not; for God forbid that my dishonor should blight173 his noble fame. As for the slave De Laguy—the traitor and low liar—doom me, great monarch, to the convent or the block, but curse me not with such contamination! for, by the heavens I swear, and by the God that rules them, that I will die by my own hand before I wed97 that serpent!”
156 “Be it so, fair one,” answered the king, very coldly, “be it so; we permit thy choice—a convent or the victor’s bridal bed shall be thy doom, at thine own option! Meanwhile, your swords, sirs: until the hour of battle ye are both under our arrest. Jarnac, be thou godfather to Charles de La-Hirè; Nevers, do thou like office for De Laguy.”
“By God, not I, sire!” answered the proud duke. “I hold this man’s offence so rank, his guilt123 so palpable, that, on my conscience, I think your royal hangman were his best godfather!”
“Nevertheless, De Nevers, it shall be as I say! This bold protest of thine is all-sufficient for thine honor; and it is but a form! No words, duke! it must be as I have said! Joyeuse, escort this lady to thy duchess; pray her accept of her as the king’s guest, until this matter be decided174. The third day hence at noon, on foot, with sword and dagger, with no arms of defence or vantage; the principals to fight alone, until one die or yield—and so God shield the right!”
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