Had you heard of that,
Philibert? It is the latest news from France."
"Oh, yes, Chevalier! Ill news like that never misses the mark it is
aimed at. The news soon reached my father!"
"And how does your father take it?"
"My father is a true philosopher; he takes it as Socrates might have
taken it; he laughs at the Count de Marville, who will, he says,
want to sell the estate before the year is out, to pay his debts of
honor--the only debts he ever does pay."
"If Bigot had anything to do with such an outrage," exclaimed Le
Gardeur warmly, "I would renounce him on the spot. I have heard
Bigot speak of this gift to De Marville, whom he hates. He says it
was all La Pompadour's doing from first to last, and I believe it."
"Well," remarked La Corne, "Bigot has plenty of sins of his own to
answer for to the Sieur Philibert, on the day of account, without
reckoning this among them."
The loud report of a cannon shook the windows of the room, and died
away in long-repeated echoes among the distant hills.
"That is the signal for the Council of War, my Lady," said La Corne.
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