The Chevalier's Expiation

 Next, Sirs, did he marry?
And whom, Sirs, did he marry?  One like himself,
Though doubtless graced with many virtues, young,
And erring, and in nothing more astray
Than in this marriage.--TAYLOR, EDWIN THE FAIR.


Nothing could be kinder than the Ambassador's family, and Philip
found himself at once at home there, at least in his brother's
room, which was all the world to him.  fortunately, Ambroise Pare,
the most skillful surgeon of his day, had stolen a day from his
attendance of King Charles, at St. Germain, to visit his Paris
patients, and, though unwilling to add to the list of cases, when
he heard from Walsingham's secretary who the suffer was, and when
injured, he came at once to afford his aid.

He found, however, that there was little scope for present
treatment, he could only set his chief assistant to watch the
patient and to inform him when the crisis should be nearer; but
remarking the uneasy, anxious expression in Berenger's eyes, he
desired to know whether any care on his mind might be interfering
with his recovery.  A Huguenot, and perfectly trustworthy, he was
one who Walsingham knew might safely hear the whole, and after
hearing all, he at once returned to his patient, and leaning over
him, said, 'Vex not yourself, sir; your illness is probably serving
you better than health could do.'

Sir Francis thought this quite probable, since Charles was so
unwell and so beset with his mother's creatures that no open
audience could be obtained from him, and Pare, who always had
access to him, might act when no one else could reach him.
Meantime the Ambassador rejoiced to hear of the instinctive caution
that had made Berenger silence Philip on the object of the journey
to Paris, since if the hostile family guessed at the residence of
the poor infant, they would have full opportunity for obliterating
all the scanty traces of her.  Poor persecuted little thing! the
uncertain hope of her existence seemed really the only thread that
still bound Berenger to life.