A Gentleman from Gascony: A Romance of the Huguenots — page 80: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VII. FROM FAILURE—SUCCESS. ALL was over! Raoul de Puycadére knew that he had staked and lost. More than this, his present condition was worse, far worse than his former. | He trembled from hand to foot; his recreant tongue clove to the roof of his mouth and refused to uttera syllable. Lucky for him was it that there were others to plead for him. | While the king was engaged in deciphering the sense of the audacious paper, Mademoiselle de Vrissac found opportunity to whisper imploringly in the queen’s ear: “ Madame, it is he, my preserver, masquerading as an ambassador from Gascony.” Now, Gabrielle de Vrissac was decidedly Marguerite’s favorite maid of honor, and the queen’s kindness had inspired in the young girl a confidence which she gave to no one else, not even to her aunt; dearly as she loved the latter, there was a little fear mingled with her affection. So she had already told the queen the whole story of her adventure at Saint Germain, and now, at the eager pleading words, Marguerite, always interested in a love affair and whose divination of such things was as keen as a hound’s scent for game, immediately guessed that her favorite was more than ordinarily in- Comicbooks:co