Each of these many chevaliers, if we may believe reports, was, like the Chevalier of Alencon, an old gentleman, tall, thin, withered6, and moneyless. He of Bourges had emigrated; he of Touraine hid himself; he of Alencon fought in La Vendee and “chouanized” somewhat. The youth of the latter was spend in Paris, where the Revolution overtook him when thirty years of age in the midst of his conquests and gallantries.
The Chevalier de Valois of Alencon was accepted by the highest aristocracy of the province as a genuine Valois; and he distinguished7 himself, like the rest of his homonyms, by excellent manners, which proved him a man of society. He dined out every day, and played cards every evening. He was thought witty8, thanks to his foible for relating a quantity of anecdotes9 on the reign10 of Louis XV. and the beginnings of the Revolution. When these tales were heard for the first time, they were held to be well narrated11. He had, moreover, the great merit of not repeating his personal bons mots and of never speaking of his love-affairs, though his smiles and his airs and graces were delightfully13 indiscreet. The worthy14 gentleman used his privilege as a Voltairean noble to stay away from mass; and great indulgence was shown to his irreligion because of his devotion to the royal cause. One of his particular graces was the air and manner (imitated, no doubt, from Mole15) with which he took snuff from a gold box adorned16 with the portrait of the Princess Goritza,—a charming Hungarian, celebrated17 for her beauty in the last years of the reign of Louis XV. Having been attached during his youth to that illustrious stranger, he still mentioned her with emotion. For her sake he had fought a duel18 with Monsieur de Lauzun.
The chevalier, now fifty-eight years of age, owned to only fifty; and he might well allow himself that innocent deception19, for, among the other advantages granted to fair thin persons, he managed to preserve the still youthful figure which saves men as well as women from an appearance of old age. Yes, remember this: all of life, or rather all the elegance20 that expresses life, is in the figure. Among the chevalier’s other possessions must be counted an enormous nose with which nature had endowed him. This nose vigorously divided a pale face into two sections which seemed to have no knowledge of each other, for one side would redden under the process of digestion21, while the other continued white. This fact is worthy of remark at a period when physiology22 is so busy with the human heart. The incandescence23, so to call it, was on the left side. Though his long slim legs, supporting a lank24 body, and his pallid25 skin, were not indicative of health, Monsieur de Valois ate like an ogre and declared he had a malady26 called in the provinces “hot liver,” perhaps to excuse his monstrous27 appetite. The circumstance of his singular flush confirmed this declaration; but in a region where repasts are developed on the line of thirty or forty dishes and last four hours, the chevalier’s stomach would seem to have been a blessing28 bestowed29 by Providence30 on the good town of Alencon. According to certain doctors, heat on the left side denotes a prodigal31 heart. The chevalier’s gallantries confirmed this scientific assertion, the responsibility for which does not rest, fortunately, on the historian.
In spite of these symptoms, Monsieur de Valois’ constitution was vigorous, consequently long-lived. If his liver “heated,” to use an old-fashioned word, his heart was not less inflammable. His face was wrinkled and his hair silvered; but an intelligent observer would have recognized at once the stigmata of passion and the furrows32 of pleasure which appeared in the crow’s-feet and the marches-du-palais, so prized at the court of Cythera. Everything about this dainty chevalier bespoke33 the “ladies’ man.” He was so minute in his ablutions that his cheeks were a pleasure to look upon; they seemed to have been laved in some miraculous34 water. The part of his skull35 which his hair refused to cover shone like ivory. His eyebrows36, like his hair, affected37 youth by the care and regularity38 with which they were combed. His skin, already white, seemed to have been extra-whitened by some secret compound. Without using perfumes, the chevalier exhaled39 a certain fragrance40 of youth, that refreshed the atmosphere. His hands, which were those of a gentleman, and were cared for like the hands of a pretty woman, attracted the eye to their rosy41, well-shaped nails. In short, had it not been for his magisterial42 and stupendous nose, the chevalier might have been thought a trifle too dainty.
We must here compel ourselves to spoil this portrait by the avowal43 of a littleness. The chevalier put cotton in his ears, and wore, appended to them, two little ear-rings representing negroes’ heads in diamonds, of admirable workmanship. He clung to these singular appendages44, explaining that since his ears had been bored he had ceased to have headaches (he had had headaches). We do not present the chevalier as an accomplished45 man; but surely we can pardon, in an old celibate46 whose heart sends so much blood to his left cheek, these adorable qualities, founded, perhaps, on some sublime47 secret history.
Besides, the Chevalier de Valois redeemed48 those negroes’ heads by so many other graces that society felt itself sufficiently49 compensated50. He really took such immense trouble to conceal51 his age and give pleasure to his friends. In the first place, we must call attention to the extreme care he gave to his linen52, the only distinction that well-bred men can nowadays exhibit in their clothes. The linen of the chevalier was invariably of a fineness and whiteness that were truly aristocratic. As for his coat, though remarkable53 for its cleanliness, it was always half worn-out, but without spots or creases54. The preservation55 of that garment was something marvellous to those who noticed the chevalier’s high-bred indifference56 to its shabbiness. He did not go so far as to scrape the seams with glass,—a refinement57 invented by the Prince of Wales; but he did practice the rudiments58 of English elegance with a personal satisfaction little understood by the people of Alencon. The world owes a great deal to persons who take such pains to please it. In this there is certainly some accomplishment59 of that most difficult precept60 of the Gospel about rendering61 good for evil. This freshness of ablution and all the other little cares harmonized charmingly with the blue eyes, the ivory teeth, and the blond person of the old chevalier.
The only blemish62 was that this retired63 Adonis had nothing manly64 about him; he seemed to be employing this toilet varnish65 to hide the ruins occasioned by the military service of gallantry only. But we must hasten to add that his voice produced what might be called an antithesis66 to his blond delicacy67. Unless you adopted the opinion of certain observers of the human heart, and thought that the chevalier had the voice of his nose, his organ of speech would have amazed you by its full and redundant68 sound. Without possessing the volume of classical bass69 voices, the tone of it was pleasing from a slightly muffled70 quality like that of an English bugle71, which is firm and sweet, strong but velvety72.
The chevalier had repudiated73 the ridiculous costume still preserved by certain monarchical74 old men; he had frankly75 modernized76 himself. He was always seen in a maroon-colored coat with gilt77 buttons, half-tight breeches of poult-de-soie with gold buckles78, a white waistcoat without embroidery79, and a tight cravat80 showing no shirt-collar,—a last vestige81 of the old French costume which he did not renounce82, perhaps, because it enabled him to show a neck like that of the sleekest83 abbe. His shoes were noticeable for their square buckles, a style of which the present generation has no knowledge; these buckles were fastened to a square of polished black leather. The chevalier allowed two watch-chains to hang parallel to each other from each of his waistcoat pockets,—another vestige of the eighteenth century, which the Incroyables had not disdained84 to use under the Directory. This transition costume, uniting as it did two centuries, was worn by the chevalier with the high-bred grace of an old French marquis, the secret of which is lost to France since the day when Fleury, Mole’s last pupil, vanished.
The private life of this old bachelor was apparently85 open to all eyes, though in fact it was quite mysterious. He lived in a lodging86 that was modest, to say the best of it, in the rue87 du Cours, on the second floor of a house belonging to Madame Lardot, the best and busiest washerwoman in the town. This circumstance will explain the excessive nicety of his linen. Ill-luck would have it that the day came when Alencon was guilty of believing that the chevalier had not always comported88 himself as a gentleman should, and that in fact he was secretly married in his old age to a certain Cesarine,—the mother of a child which had had the impertinence to come into the world without being called for.
“He had given his hand,” as a certain Monsieur du Bousquier remarked, “to the person who had long had him under irons.”
This horrible calumny89 embittered90 the last days of the dainty chevalier all the more because, as the present Scene will show, he had lost a hope long cherished to which he had made many sacrifices.
Madame Lardot leased to the chevalier two rooms on the second floor of her house, for the modest sum of one hundred francs a year. The worthy gentleman dined out every day, returning only in time to go to bed. His sole expense therefore was for breakfast, invariably composed of a cup of chocolate, with bread and butter and fruits in their season. He made no fire except in the coldest winter, and then only enough to get up by. Between eleven and four o’clock he walked about, went to read the papers, and paid visits. From the time of his settling in Alencon he had nobly admitted his poverty, saying that his whole fortune consisted in an annuity91 of six hundred francs a year, the sole remains92 of his former opulence93,—a property which obliged him to see his man of business (who held the annuity papers) quarterly. In truth, one of the Alencon bankers paid him every three months one hundred and fifty francs, sent down by Monsieur Bordin of Paris, the last of the procureurs du Chatelet. Every one knew these details because the chevalier exacted the utmost secrecy94 from the persons to whom he first confided95 them.
Monsieur de Valois gathered the fruit of his misfortunes. His place at table was laid in all the most distinguished houses in Alencon, and he was bidden to all soirees. His talents as a card-player, a narrator, an amiable96 man of the highest breeding, were so well known and appreciated that parties would have seemed a failure if the dainty connoisseur97 was absent. Masters of houses and their wives felt the need of his approving grimace98. When a young woman heard the chevalier say at a ball, “You are delightfully well-dressed!” she was more pleased at such praise than she would have been at mortifying99 a rival. Monsieur de Valois was the only man who could perfectly100 pronounce certain phrases of the olden time. The words, “my heart,” “my jewel,” “my little pet,” “my queen,” and the amorous101 diminutives102 of 1770, had a grace that was quite irresistible103 when they came from his lips. In short, the chevalier had the privilege of superlatives. His compliments, of which he was stingy, won the good graces of all the old women; he made himself agreeable to every one, even to the officials of the government, from whom he wanted nothing. His behavior at cards had a lofty distinction which everybody noticed: he never complained; he praised his adversaries104 when they lost; he did not rebuke105 or teach his partners by showing them how they ought to have played. When, in the course of a deal, those sickening dissertations106 on the game would take place, the chevalier invariably drew out his snuff-box with a gesture that was worthy of Mole, looked at the Princess Goritza, raised the cover with dignity, shook, sifted107, massed the snuff, and gathered his pinch, so that by the time the cards were dealt he had decorated both nostrils108 and replaced the princess in his waistcoat pocket,—always on his left side. A gentleman of the “good” century (in distinction from the “grand” century) could alone have invented that compromise between contemptuous silence and a sarcasm109 which might not have been understood. He accepted poor players and knew how to make the best of them. His delightful12 equability of temper made many persons say,—
“I do admire the Chevalier de Valois!”
His conversation, his manners, seemed bland110, like his person. He endeavored to shock neither man nor woman. Indulgent to defects both physical and mental, he listened patiently (by the help of the Princess Goritza) to the many dull people who related to him the petty miseries111 of provincial112 life,—an egg ill-boiled for breakfast, coffee with feathered cream, burlesque113 details about health, disturbed sleep, dreams, visits. The chevalier could call up a languishing114 look, he could take on a classic attitude to feign115 compassion116, which made him a most valuable listener; he could put in an “Ah!” and a “Bah!” and a “What DID you do?” with charming appropriateness. He died without any one suspecting him of even an allusion117 to the tender passages of his romance with the Princess Goritza. Has any one ever reflected on the service a dead sentiment can do to society; how love may become both social and useful? This will serve to explain why, in spite of his constant winning at play (he never left a salon118 without carrying off with him about six francs), the old chevalier remained the spoilt darling of the town. His losses—which, by the bye, he always proclaimed, were very rare.
All who know him declare that they have never met, not even in the Egyptian museum at Turin, so agreeable a mummy. In no country in the world did parasitism119 ever take on so pleasant a form. Never did selfishness of a most concentrated kind appear less forth-putting, less offensive, than in this old gentleman; it stood him in place of devoted120 friendship. If some one asked Monsieur de Valois to do him a little service which might have discommoded him, that some one did not part from the worthy chevalier without being truly enchanted121 with him, and quite convinced that he either could not do the service demanded, or that he should injure the affair if he meddled122 in it.
To explain the problematic existence of the chevalier, the historian, whom Truth, that cruel wanton, grasps by the throat, is compelled to say that after the “glorious” sad days of July, Alencon discovered that the chevalier’s nightly winnings amounted to about one hundred and fifty francs every three months; and that the clever old nobleman had had the pluck to send to himself his annuity in order not to appear in the eyes of a community, which loves the main chance, to be entirely123 without resources. Many of his friends (he was by that time dead, you will please remark) have contested mordicus this curious fact, declaring it to be a fable124, and upholding the Chevalier de Valois as a respectable and worthy gentleman whom the liberals calumniated125. Luckily for shrewd players, there are people to be found among the spectators who will always sustain them. Ashamed of having to defend a piece of wrong-doing, they stoutly126 deny it. Do not accuse them of wilful127 infatuation; such men have a sense of their dignity; governments set them the example of a virtue128 which consists in burying their dead without chanting the Misere of their defeats. If the chevalier did allow himself this bit of shrewd practice,—which, by the bye, would have won him the regard of the Chevalier de Gramont, a smile from the Baron129 de Foeneste, a shake of the hand from the Marquis de Moncade,—was he any the less that amiable guest, that witty talker, that imperturbable130 card-player, that famous teller131 of anecdotes, in whom all Alencon took delight? Besides, in what way was this action, which is certainly within the rights of a man’s own will,—in what way was it contrary to the ethics132 of a gentleman? When so many persons are forced to pay annuities133 to others, what more natural than to pay one to his own best friend? But Laius is dead—
To return to the period of which we are writing: after about fifteen years of this way of life the chevalier had amassed134 ten thousand and some odd hundred francs. On the return of the Bourbons, one of his old friends, the Marquis de Pombreton, formerly135 lieutenant136 in the Black mousquetaires, returned to him—so he said—twelve hundred pistoles which he had lent to the marquis for the purpose of emigrating. This event made a sensation; it was used later to refute the sarcasms137 of the “Constitutionnel,” on the method employed by some emigres in paying their debts. When this noble act of the Marquis de Pombreton was lauded138 before the chevalier, the good man reddened even to his right cheek. Every one rejoiced frankly at this windfall for Monsieur de Valois, who went about consulting moneyed people as to the safest manner of investing this fragment of his past opulence. Confiding139 in the future of the Restoration, he finally placed his money on the Grand-Livre at the moment when the funds were at fifty-six francs and twenty-five centimes. Messieurs de Lenoncourt, de Navarreins, de Verneuil, de Fontaine, and La Billardiere, to whom he was known, he said, obtained for him, from the king’s privy140 purse, a pension of three hundred francs, and sent him, moreover, the cross of Saint-Louis. Never was it known positively141 by what means the old chevalier obtained these two solemn consecrations of his title and merits. But one thing is certain; the cross of Saint-Louis authorized142 him to take the rank of retired colonel in view of his service in the Catholic armies of the West.
Besides his fiction of an annuity, about which no one at the present time knew anything, the chevalier really had, therefore, a bona fide income of a thousand francs. But in spite of this bettering of his circumstances, he made no change in his life, manners, or appearance, except that the red ribbon made a fine effect on his maroon-colored coat, and completed, so to speak, the physiognomy of a gentleman. After 1802, the chevalier sealed his letters with a very old seal, ill-engraved to be sure, by which the Casterans, the d’Esgrignons, the Troisvilles were enabled to see that he bore: Party of France, two cottises gemelled gules, and gules, five mascles or, placed end to end; on a chief sable1, a cross argent. For crest143, a knight’s helmet. For motto: “Valeo.” Bearing such noble arms, the so-called bastard144 of the Valois had the right to get into all the royal carriages of the world.
Many persons envied the quiet existence of this old bachelor, spent on whist, boston, backgammon, reversi, and piquet, all well played, on dinners well digested, snuff gracefully145 inhaled146, and tranquil walks about the town. Nearly all Alencon believed this life to be exempt147 from ambitions and serious interests; but no man has a life as simple as envious148 neighbors attribute to him. You will find in the most out-of-the way villages human mollusks, creatures apparently dead, who have passions for lepidoptera or for conchology, let us say,—beings who will give themselves infinite pains about moths149, butterflies, or the concha Veneris. Not only did the chevalier have his own particular shells, but he cherished an ambitious desire which he pursued with a craft so profound as to be worthy of Sixtus the Fifth: he wanted to marry a certain rich old maid, with the intention, no doubt, of making her a stepping-stone by which to reach the more elevated regions of the court. There, then, lay the secret of his royal bearing and of his residence in Alencon.
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calumny
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dissertations
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compassion
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salon
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