Here is another common-sense opinion which may be set over against that of Peyraque and Justine. Of these two lines of reasoning the reader is free to adopt the one that he prefers; but the narrator must, of necessity, hold an opinion also, and he avows19 a little partiality for that of Caroline.
The Marquis perceived that Madame Heudebert made, now and then, some timid allusions20 to the state of things, and felt sure she knew the whole. He threw himself on her mercy a little more than he had done hitherto; and Camille, encouraged, asked him, with a sufficient want of tact, whether, in case the Marchioness proved inexorable, he was fully resolved to make Caroline an offer of his hand. She seemed on the point of betraying her sister's secret, if the Marquis would pledge his word of honor.
The Marquis replied without hesitation22: "If I was sure of being loved, if the happiness of Mlle de Saint-Geneix depended on my courage, I would contrive23 to do away with my mother's prejudices, at any cost; but you give me no encouragement. Only give me that, and you will see!"
"I give you encouragement!" exclaimed Camille, amazed and confused. She hesitated to reply. She had indeed divined Caroline's secret; but the latter had always guarded it proudly, not by falsehood, but by never allowing herself to be questioned, and Madame Heudebert had not the daring to inflict a severe wound on her sister's dignity, by taking it upon herself to compromise her. "That is something I am no wiser about than you," said she. "Caroline has a strong character,—one which I cannot always fathom25."
"And this strength of hers is so great," said the Marquis, "that she would never accept my name without my mother's sincere benediction26. This I know better even than you do. So tell me nothing; it is for me alone to act. I ask of you only one thing more, and that is to let me watch over you and your children until something new shall occur, and even—yes, I will venture to say it—I am haunted by the fear that Mlle da Saint-Geneix may find herself without resources, exposed to privations which it makes me shudder27 to think of. Spare me this dread28. Let me leave you a sum which you can return, if there is no use for it, but which, in case of need, you will remit29 to her as coming from yourself.'
"O, that is quite impossible," replied Camille: "she would divine the source, and never forgive me for having taken it!"
"I see you are really afraid of her."
"Just as I am of all that commands respect."
"Then we feel alike," replied the Marquis as he took leave. "I am so thoroughly30 afraid of her that I dare not seek her any farther, and yet I must find her again or die."
Shortly afterward31 the Marquis drew an explanation from his mother, which was painful enough to both of them. Although he saw her suffering, sad, regretting Caroline a hundred times more than she admitted, and although he had resolved to await a more propitious32 moment for his inquiries, the explanation came, in his own despite and in despite of the Marchioness, through the fatality33 of circumstances. The anxiety of the situation was too intense; it could not be prolonged. Madame de Villemer confessed that she had conceived a sudden prejudice against the character of Mlle de Saint-Geneix, and that at the very moment of fulfilling her promise she had let Caroline feel the exceeding pain it caused her. Gradually, under the eager questioning of the Marquis, the conversation grew more animated34, and Madame de Villemer, pushed to extremity35, allowed the accusation36 against Caroline to escape her. The unfortunate girl had committed a fault pardonable in the eyes of the Marchioness when acting37 as her friend and guardian38, but one which made it quite out of the question even to think of receiving her as a daughter.
Before this result of calumny39 the Marquis did not flinch40 one instant. "It is an infamous41 lie," he cried, beside himself,—"a base lie! And you could believe it? Then it must have been very artful and very audacious. Mother, you must tell me all, for I am not disposed to be taken in so myself."
"No, my son, I shall tell you no more," replied Madame de Villemer firmly; "and every word you add to those you have just uttered, I shall consider a breach42 of filial affection and respect."
So the Marchioness remained impenetrable; she had promised not to betray Léonie; and, besides, nothing in the world would tempt43 her to sow the seeds of discord44 between her two sons. The Duke had so often told her, in Urbain's presence, that he had never sought or obtained a single kind look from Caroline! This, in the opinion of the Marchioness, was a falsehood the Marquis would never pardon. She knew, now, that he had taken the Duke into his confidence, and that Gaëtan, touched by his grief, had persuaded his wife into taking measures for seeking Caroline in all the Parisian convents. "He does not speak," said the Marchioness to herself; "he will not dissuade45 his wife and brother from this folly46, when he ought, at the very least, to have confessed the past to the Marquis, in order to cure him of it. It is too late now to risk such avowals. I cannot do it without leading my two sons to kill each other after having loved so warmly."
Meanwhile Caroline wrote her sister as follows:—
"You feel alarmed because I am in so uneven47 and rocky a region, and ask what can be fine enough to make one run the risk of being killed at every step. First of all, there is really no danger here for me under the guidance of this good Peyraque. The roads, that would be actually frightful48, and, as I think, impassable for carriages like those with which we are familiar, are just large enough for the little carts of this region. Then, too, Peyraque is very prudent49. When he cannot measure with his eye just precisely50 the space he needs, he has a method of ascertaining51 it, which made me laugh heartily52 the first time I saw him put it in practice. He trusts me with the reins53, jumps to the ground himself, takes his whip, which has the exact size of his cart marked with a little notch54 on its stock, and, advancing a few paces on the road, he proceeds to measure the width of the passage between the rock and the precipice55,—sometimes between one precipice on the right and another on the left. If the road has a centimetre more than is needful he comes back triumphant56, and we go quickly by. If we have no such centimetre in which to disport57 ourselves, he makes me alight, while he leads the horse by the bridle58, dragging on the carriage. When we find two little walls hemming59 in a foot-path, we place one wheel on either wall and the horse in the pathway. I assure you one soon becomes accustomed to all this, and already I think no more about it. The horses here have no vicious tricks, and are not inclined to shy; they know the danger as well as we, and accidents are no more frequent in this country than they are on the plains. I certainly exaggerated the danger of these jaunts60 in my first letters; it was from vanity, or a lingering fear, of which I am wholly cured now that I feel it was groundless.
"As to the beauty of Velay, I could never describe it for you. I did not dream there could be, here in the heart of France, a country so strange and so imposing61. It is far more lovely than Auvergne, through which I passed on my way hither. The city of Le Puy is probably unique in point of location; it is perched upon masses of lava62 that seem to spring up from its very heart and form a part of its architecture. These lava pyramids are indeed the edifices63 of giants; but those which man has placed on their sides, and often on their summits, have certainly been inspired by the grandeur64 and wildness of the spot.
"The cathedral is admirable, in the Romanesque style, of the same color as the rocks, but slightly enlivened by the blue and white mosaics65 on the pediments of its façade. It is placed so as to seem colossal66, for, to reach it, you must climb a mountain of dizzy steps. The interior is sublime67 in its elegant strength and solemn dimness. I never understood the terrors of the Middle Ages, or felt them, so to speak, as I did under these bare, black pillars, beneath these storm-laden domes68. There was a furious tempest while I was there. The flashes sent their infernal lights across the splendid windows that strew69 the walls and pavements with jewels. The thunders seemed rolling forth6 from the sanctuary70 itself. It was Jehovah in all his wrath71; but it gave me no alarm. The true God, whom we love to-day, has no menaces for the weak. I prayed there with a perfect faith, and felt it had done me good. As for these beautiful temples of the faith in ages both rude and stern, it is clear they are the expression of the one grand word, 'mystery,' whose veil it was forbidden to lift. If M. de Villemer had been there he would have said—
"But a course of history and religious philosophy is not to the point now. The ideas of M. de Villemer are no longer the book from which I may study the past or learn to anticipate the future.
"You see, thanks to good Peyraque and his desire to show me the marvels72 of Velay, thanks also to my impenetrable hood24, I have ventured into the city and its suburbs. The city is everywhere picturesque73; it is still a mediæval town, closely studded with churches and convents. The cathedral is flanked by a whole world of ancient structures, where, under mysterious arcades74, and in the turns and twists of the rock they stand on, you can see cloisters75, gardens, staircases, and mute shadows gliding76 by, hidden beneath veil and cassock. A strange silence reigns77 there, and a certain odor of the past, I know not what, which makes one shiver with fear, not of our God, the source of all confidence and spiritual freedom, but of everything that, in the name of God, breaks up forever the ties and duties of our common humanity. In our convent, I remember a religious life seemed cheerful; here, it is sombre enough to make one tremble.
"From the cathedral you must keep going down hill for an hour to reach the Faubourg d'Aiguilhe, where another monument rears its head, which is natural and historic, at one and the same time, and, indeed, the most curious thing in the world. It is a volcanic78 sugar-loaf three hundred feet in height, which you mount by a spiral stairway until you reach a Byzantine chapel79, necessarily quite small, but charming, and built, it is said, on the site and from the fragments of a temple to Diana.
"A legend is current here, which struck me forcibly. A young girl, a Christian80 virgin81, pursued by some miscreant82, flung herself to escape him down from the top of the terrace; she arose at once; she was unharmed. The miracle was noised abroad. She was declared a saint. Pride grew strong in her heart; she promised to hurl83 herself down again, to show she was under the protection of angels; but this time Heaven deserted84 her, and she was crushed like a vain silly creature as she was.
"Pride! yes, God leaves the proud to themselves, and without him what can they do? But do not tell me that I am proud. No, it is not pride. I have no desire to prove anything to any one. I ask to be forgotten, and that there should be no suffering on my account.
"There is near Le Puy, forming a part of its magnificent landscape, a village that also crowns one of those singular, isolated85 rocks, which break through the soil here at every step. It is called Espaly, and this rock also bears up the ruins of a feudal86 castle and of Celtic grottos87. One of these caves is inhabited by two persons, aged21 and poor, whose squalid misery88 is heart-rending. This couple live here in the solid rock, with a single hole for chimney and window. At night they block up the door, in winter with straw; in summer, with the old woman's petticoat. A small, rude bed without coverlids or mattress89, two stools, a little iron lamp, a spinning-wheel, and two or three earthen pots,—these are all the furniture.
"Nevertheless, only a few paces from them there is a vast and splendid house belonging to the Jesuits and named the Paradise. At the foot of the rock flows a brook90 which brings down precious stones in its sand. The old woman sold me for twenty sous a handful of garnets, sapphires91, and jacinths, which I am keeping for Lili. The stones are too small to have any actual value, but there must be a precious deposit somewhere among these rocks. The Jesuit fathers will find it, perhaps; I don't expect to make the discovery myself, however; so I must think about procuring92 some work. Peyraque has an idea which he has enlarged upon for the last few days, and which was suggested to him by this very rock of Espaly; I will tell you how.
"While strolling about over this rock, I was taken with one of my sudden fancies for a little child, playing in the lap of a pretty woman from the village, who was strong and cheerful. This child, you see, I can compare with no one but our Charley, for inspiring affection. He does not look like Charley, but has the same demure93 playfulness, and the shy caresses94 which make one his willing slave. When I called upon Peyraque to admire him, remarking how clean he was kept, and that his mother made no lace, but seemed wholly taken up with him, as if she knew she had a treasure there, Peyraque at once replied, 'You have come nearer the truth than you thought. This child is a treasure for Dame7 Roqueberte. If you ask who he is, she will tell you it is the child of a sister she has in Clermont; but this is not true: the little one has been placed in her charge by a gentleman whom no one knows, who pays her for rearing it, who pays her, besides, for taking great care of it, as if it were the son of a prince. So you see this woman is well dressed and does not work. She was in easy circumstances before. Her husband has charge of the castle of Polignac, whose great tower, and in fact all the ruined portion, you can see over yonder, on a rock larger and loftier than that of Espaly; that is where she lives, and, if you meet her here, it is because now she has such fine chances for pleasure strolls. The real mother of the little one must be dead, for she has never been heard of; but the father comes to see it, leaves money, and stipulates95 that it shall not be allowed to want for anything.'
"You see, dear sister, this is a romance. That is partly what attracted me perhaps, since, according to your ideas, I am quite romantic. Certainly this little boy has something about him which captivates the imagination. He is not strong; they say when he first came here he had hardly life enough to breathe; but now he is quite blooming, and the mountain air agrees with him so well that his father, who came here at about this time last year to take him away, decided96 to leave him a year longer, in order to have him regain97 his strength completely. The little creature has an angelic face, dreamy eyes, with a far-off look in them, strange in a child of his age, and there is a wondrous98 grace in all his ways.
"Peyraque, seeing me so bewitched, scratched his head with an air of profundity99 and continued, 'Well, tell me, then, since you are fond of little children, why, instead of making it your occupation to read aloud, which must be wearisome, do you not find a little pupil like that, whom you could educate at your sister's with the other children? This would leave you in your own home and to your own ways.'
"'You forget, my good Peyraque, that perhaps it will be long before I can go to my sister.'
"'Well, then, your sister might come and live here, or else you could stay with us for a year or two; my wife would aid you in taking care of the child, and you would only have the trouble of watching over him and teaching him.—Stop! I have an idea of my own about this child, since he pleases you so that you are doting100 on him already. His father will come after him one of these days. Suppose I should tell him about you?'
"'Then you are acquainted with him!'
"'I acted as driver for him once, and carried him to the mountain in my carriage. He seems a fine man, but too young to take upon himself the bringing up of a child of three years. He will have to place it in charge of some woman, and he cannot leave it any longer with the Roqueberts, for they are not capable of teaching what a young gentleman like him ought to know. This would be your own task, especially, and the father would never find so good a mother for his child. Hope, hope! (which signifies wait!) I will keep watch at Polignac, and as soon as this father arrives, I will manage to talk with him in the proper way.'
"I let good Peyraque cultivate this project, and Justine also, but I have no faith in it myself, for the mysterious personage expected will ask questions I am unwilling101 to have answered, unless I am quite sure he knows none of the people, either intimately or remotely, from whom my place of retreat must be concealed102. And how could I make sure of that? Peyraque's idea is, nevertheless, in itself a good one. To educate some child at home for a few years would please me infinitely103 better than going into a strange family again. I would rather take a girl than a boy, as she would be left with me a longer time; but there will be little room for choice, for these children hidden away by their parents are not easy to find. And there must needs be the most perfect confidence in me. I must be well recommended. Madame d'Arglade, who knows all the secrets of fashionable life, could find for me a chance like this; but I would rather not apply to her: without intending to do so, she might bring upon me some fresh misfortune."
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