He held his gray cap in his hand, and although the weather was quite cold, the wrinkled and sunburnt brow of Raimond V. was covered with sweat.
By the light of a torch, a valet, holding by the bridle5 the treacherous6 and obstreperous7 Mistraon, whose flanks were foaming9 with perspiration10, could be seen in the court of the castle.
A great black hunting dog with long hair, and a little yellow and white spaniel, were lying at the feet of the stallion from Camargne.
The dog was panting; his ears lying on his head, his mouth open and filled with foam8, his eyes half closed, and the feverish11 palpitation of his sides, all announced that he had just run a rapid race. The sight of Mistraon added to Reine’s annoyance12 by recalling the scene on the rocks. But the baron13, preoccupied14 by the success of the chase, had not the penetration15 to discover the agitation16 of his daughter.
He detached a leather strap17 which held a large hare to the bow of his saddle, and proudly presented the game to Reine, as he said:
“Would you believe it, Eclair,” and at the name the dog lifted his fine intelligent head, “caught this hare in thirteen minutes on the marshes18 of Savenol. It was old Genêt,” and at this name the little spaniel lifted his head, “that put him on the track. Mistraon is so fleet that I did not lose sight of Eclair from the time I began to climb the hill of black stones. I made, I am sure, more than a league and a half.”
“Oh, father, why will you ride this horse, after the frightful19 experience you have had with him?”
“Manjour!” cried the old gentleman, with an air of mock gravity, “never shall it be said that Raimond V. succumbed20 to one of the indomitable sons of Camargne.”
“But, father—”
“But, my daughter, I yield no more on land than on sea, and I say that, because I have just been visiting the seines that those rascals21 in La Ciotat wish to prevent my laying beyond the rocks of Castrembaou. Just now, too, I met the consul22 Talebard-Talebardon on his nag23, and he talked about it And he had the effrontery24 to threaten me with the tribunal of overseers, of which the watchman is the assignee! Manjour, I laughed so much, that this demon26, Mistraon, took advantage of my distraction27 and flew like an arrow.”
“More dangers, father; this horse will be the death of you!”
“Be easy, my child, although I have not such a vigorous fist as the half savage28 young Muscovite who so adroitly29 arrested Mistraon on the border of a precipice30, the bridle and the spur and the whip know how to reason with a vicious horse and his pranks31. But permit me, my beautiful lady of the castle, to offer you the foot of the animal that I have captured.”
And the baron drew a knife from his pocket, cut off the right foot of the hare, and gallantly32 presented it to his daughter, who accepted, not without some repugnance33, this trophy34 of the chase.
Mistraon was led back to the stable, but Eclair and Genêt, favourites of the baron, followed him side by side, as, leaning on the arm of his daughter, he made what he called his evening inspection35, while waiting for the hour of supper.
The women and young girls were spinning at the wheel, the men mending their nets and cleaning implements36 of husbandry. Master Laramée, the old sergeant37 of the company raised by the baron during the civil troubles, and majordomo and commander of the castle garrison38, exacted that all of the baron’s tenants39, who, in turn, performed the service of sentinel on the terrace which bordered the sea, should be armed in military style.
Others were engaged in decorating long lances, destined40 for jousts41 on the water, or to be used in jumping the cross-bar, the usual Christmas amusements, in the colours of the baron, red and yellow. Some, more seriously occupied, prepared the seed for late sowing; some were weaving, with great care, baskets out of rushes, to hold presents of fruit, made at Christmas.
These occupations were enlivened by songs peculiar42 to the country, sometimes accompanied by some marvellous legend, or terrible recital43 of the cruelties of pirates.
In an upper hall filled with fruit, children and old men were busy in examining long garlands of grapes, which hung from the rafters of the ceiling, or packing in baskets sweet-smelling figs44, dried upon layers of straw.
Farther on was the laundry, where the washerwomen, under the supervision45 of a gentlewoman, Dulceline, the housekeeper46, were occupied in perfuming the linen47 of the castle, by putting between its folds, whiter than snow, the leaves of aromatic48 herbs.
Often the sharp voice of Dulceline rose above the songs of the washerwomen, as she reprimanded some idlers.
By the side of the laundry was the pharmacy49 of the castle, where the peasants of the neighbourhood found all their remedies. This pharmacy belonged to the department of the baron’s chaplain, Abbé Mascarolus, an old and excellent priest of angelic piety50 and rare simplicity51. The chaplain had an extensive acquaintance with medical men and their attainments52, and firmly believed in the strange pharmacy of that time.
In spite of the continual apprehension53 of a visit from the pirates, all the inhabitants of Maison-Forte shared the traditional gaiety, so to speak, which the approach of Christmas, the most joyous54 and most important festival of the year, always brought to Provence.
Every evening before supper, the baron made, in company with his daughter, what he called his inspection; that is, he went through the whole theatre of the various occupations with which we have been entertaining the reader, chatting familiarly with everybody, listening to requests and complaints, often impatient and sometimes flying into a passion and scolding, but always full of justice and kindness, and so cordial in his good-humour that his bursts of irritation56 were soon forgotten.
Raimond V. kept a large part of his domain57 in good condition. He sat up a long time at night to talk with his principal shepherds, labourers, farmers, and vinedressers, convinced of the wisdom of the two Proven?al proverbs, worthy58 of the watchman on the cape59 of l’Aigle: Luci doou mestre engraisso lou chivaou,—the eye of the master fattens60 the horse. Bouen pastre, bouen ave,—good shepherd, good flock.
The old gentleman usually completed his circuit by a visit to the pharmacy, where he found Abbé Mascarolus, who gave him a sort of hygienic statement of the health of the inhabitants of the domain Des Anbiez.
To-day, he passed by the laundry, going directly to the pharmacy, accompanied by Reine. Preparations for the Christmas holidays were going on all through the castle, but the most important solemnity of all was reserved for the care of the venerable Dulceline, who had entreated61 the abbé to enlighten her with his counsels.
This was the cradle or crib, a sort of picture placed every Christmas day in the most beautiful room of the habitation,—castle, cottage, or mansion62.
This picture represented the birth of the infant Jesus; there were the stable, the ox, the ass25, St Joseph, and the Virgin63 holding on her knees the Saviour64 of the world.
Every family, poor or rich, deemed it absolutely requisite65 to have a cradle as elegant as could be afforded, ornamented67 with garlands and tinsel, and illuminated68 with a circle of candles.
As Raimond V. passed the laundry, he was surprised not to see Dulceline, and asked where she was.
“Monseigneur,” said a young girl with black eyes and cheeks the colour of a pomegranate, “Mile. Dulceline is in the chamber69 of the philters, with the abbé and Thereson; she is at work on the cradle, and forbids us to enter.”
“The devil!” said the baron, “the supper-bell has rung, and the abbé must say grace for us.”
He advanced to the door; it was fastened on the inside; he knocked.
“Come, come, abbé, supper is ready, and I am as hungry as the devil.”
“One moment, monseigneur,” said Dulceline, “we cannot open,—it is a secret.”
“What, abbé, you have secrets with Dulceline?” said the old gentleman, laughing.
“Ah, monseigneur, God save us! Thereson is with us,” screamed the old lady, offended at the baron’s pleasantry. As she opened the door, she presented a pale, wrinkled face, framed in a ruff and cap, worthy of the pencil of Holbein.
The abbé, fifty years old, was dressed in a black robe and cap, which fit his head closely and displayed his gentle face to advantage.
Thereson, as soon as the baron entered, hid the cradle under a cloth. The baron approached, and was about to lift it, when Dulceline cried, in a beseeching70 tone:
“Oh, monseigneur! permit us the pleasure of surprising you; rest assured this will be the most beautiful cradle that has ever adorned71 the great hall of Maison-Forte, and it ought to be, by Our Lady, since the commander and Father Elzear are coming such a distance to assist at the Christmas festivity.”
“Manjour! I shall be unhappy indeed if they do not come,” said the baron: “two years have passed since my brothers have spent a night or a day in our father’s house, and by St. Bernard, my patron, who assists me, the Lord will grant us a reunion this time!”
“God will hear you, monseigneur, and I join my prayers to yours,” said the abbé. Then he added: “Monseigneur, did you have a successful hunt?”
“Very good, abbé, see for yourself!” and the baron took the hare’s foot that Reine held in her hand, and showed it to the abbé.
“If mademoiselle does not desire to keep this foot,” said the abbé, “I will ask her for it, for my pharmacy, and will monseigneur tell me if it is the right or the left foot of the animal?”
“And what are you going to do with it, abbé?”
“Monseigneur,” said the good Mascarolus, pointing to an open volume on the table, “I have just received this book from Paris. It is the journal of M. de Maucaunys, a very illustrious and learned man, and I read here, page 317: ‘Recipe for the gout. Lay against the thigh72, between the trousers and the shirt, on the side affected73, two paws of a hare killed between Lady Day of September and Christmas, but with the important restriction74, that the hind75 left paw must be used if it is the right arm which is ailing76, and the right fore55 paw if it is the leg or the left thigh which is ailing: on the instant the application is made, the pain will cease.’”
“Stuff!” cried the baron, laughing with all his might. “This is a wonderful discovery; now the poachers will claim to be apothecaries77, and they will catch hares only to cure the gout.”
The good abbé, quite embarrassed by the sarcasms78 of the baron, continued to read to keep himself in countenance79, and added: “I see, baron, on page 177, wood-lice, given to dropsical nightingales, will cure them entirely80.”
Here the laughter of the good gentleman was more uproarious. Reine, notwithstanding her preoccupation, could not repress a smile, and finally laughed with her father.
The Abbé Mascarolus smiled softly, and bore these innocent railleries with Christian81 resignation, and no longer tried to defend an empiricism which, no doubt, may find analogies in medical books of the present day.
Raimond V. took leave of the pharmacy to find pleasure elsewhere, when Laramée, majordomo and master of ceremonies, came to announce that supper had been waiting a long time.
Laramée, the advance guard of the baron’s escort through the gorges82 of Ollioules, had the physiognomy of a real pandour; his complexion83 reddened by wine-drinking, his rough voice, his white and closely cut hair, his long gray moustache, and his continual swearing, were by no means to the taste of Dulceline.
She received the entrance of the majordomo into the sanctuary84 of the abbé with a sort of muttered remonstrance85, which at last changed to sharp and loud complaint, when she saw that Laramée had the indiscretion to approach the veil which covered the mysterious cradle and try to lift it.
“Well, well, Laramée,” said the baron, “Manjour, do you claim more privileges than your master, and insist upon seeing the wonders that Dulceline is hiding from our eyes? Come, come, take this lamp and light onr way.”
Then, turning to Mascarolus, Raimond V. said humorously: “Since, according to your fine book, wood-lice will cure dropsy in nightingales, you ought to try your remedy on this old scoundrel, who surely is threatened with dropsy, for he is a veritable old bottle, swollen86 with wine, ready to burst; as for the rest, like the nightingale, he will sing at night,—and the devil knows what songs!”
“Yes, monseigneur, and with a voice loud enough to wake the whole castle, and make the owls87 fly from the top of the old tower,” added Dulceline.
“And just as true as I drank two glasses of Sauvechrétien wine this morning, screech88 owls know the owls, Dulceline, my dear,” said the majordomo with a jocose89 manner as he passed, lamp in hand, before the superintendent90 of the laundry.
“Monseigneur,” cried she, “do you hear the insolence91 of Master Laramée?”
“And you shall be avenged92, my dear, for I will make him drink a pint93 of water to your health. Come, come, go on, majordomo, the soup will get cold.”
The baron, Reine, and the abbé left the pharmacy and descended the stairs, and crossed the long and dark gallery which united the two wings of Maison-Forte; they entered a large dining-room, brilliantly lighted by a good fire of beech94, olive roots, and fir-apples, which shed through the whole room the odour of balsam.
The immense chimney, with a large stone mantel, and andirons of massive iron, smoked a little, but by way of compensation, the windows latticed with lead, and the heavy doors of oak were not hermetically sealed, and the smoke found a way of escape through the numerous openings.
The north wind, entering these cracks, made a shrill95 whistle, which was victoriously96 combatted by the merry crackling of the beech and olive logs which burned in the fireplace.
The walls, simply plastered with lime, as well as the ceiling with its great projecting girders of black oak, had no other ornament66 than the skins of foxes and badgers97 and wolves, nailed at symmetrical distances by the careful hand of the majordomo.
In the spaces between the skins hung fishing-lines, weapons of the chase, whips, and spurs; and as curiosities, a Moorish98 bridle with its two-edged bit and top-not of crimson99 silk.
On an oak dresser, with a beautifully bowed front, stood an ancient and massive silver plate, whose richness contrasted singularly with the almost savage rusticity100 of the hall.
Great bottles of white glass were filled with the generous wines of Provence and Languedoc; smaller flagons contained Spanish wines, easily and promptly102 brought from Barcelona by coasting ships.
A few rustic101 valets, attired103 in cassocks of brown serge, served the table under the orders of the major-domo, the liveries with the colours of the baron never leaving the wardrobe except on feast-days.
The oblong table placed near the fireside rested on a thick carpet of Spanish broom or esparto. The rest of the hall was paved with flags of sandstone.
At the head of the table was the armorial chair of Raimond V.; at his right, the cover for his daughter, at his left, the cover for the stranger,—a custom of touching104 hospitality.
Below this place was the cover for the chaplain.
The table was delicately and abundantly served.
Around an enormous tureen of soup, made of the excellent sea eels105 of La Ciotat, and fragments of swordfish and sea dates, were fowls106 from the Pyrenees, which surrounded a perfectly107 roasted goose; on the other side, a saddle of lamb three months old, and the half of a kid one month old, justified108 by their appetising odour the culinary proverb: Cabri d’un mes, agneou de tres,—kid of one month, lamb of three; shell-fish of all kinds, such as oysters109 and mussels, having above all the flavour of the rock, as the Proven?als say, filled the spaces left between substantial viands110.
Side-dishes strongly salted and spiced, such as shrimps111, lobsters112, artichokes, celery, and tender fennel, formed a formidable reserve which Raimond V. called to his aid, when his appetite showed signs of exhaustion113.
This profusion114, which at first glance seemed so prodigal115, was easily explained by the abundant resources of the country, the customary hospitality of the time, and the great number of persons a lord was expected to entertain.
Grace being said by the worthy Abbé Mascarolus, the baron, his daughter, and the chaplain sat down to the table, and Laramée took his usual post behind the chair of his master.
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