" Rigaud looked fixedly at
the Count as he said this.
"It may be so, Rigaud," replied the Count, sadly; "strange things
take place under the regime of the strange women who now rule the
Court. Nevertheless, while I am here my whole duty shall be done.
In this matter justice shall be meted out with a firm and impartial
hand, no matter who shall be incriminated!"
The Count de la Galissoniere at once summoned a number of his most
trusted and most sagacious councillors together--the Intendant was
not one of those summoned--to consider what steps it behooved them
to take to provide for the public safety and to ensure the ends of
justice in this lamentable tragedy.
CHAPTER LI.
EVIL NEWS RIDES POST.
The sunbeams never shone more golden through the casement of a
lady's bower than on that same morning of St. Martin's through the
window of the chamber of Amelie de Repentigny, as she sat in the
midst of a group of young ladies holding earnest council over the
dresses and adornments of herself and companions, who were to be her
bridesmaids on her marriage with Pierre Philibert.
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