Something is about to happen to me."
This thought kept him standing before his window with his eyes
sometimes on his mother's windows where a faint light trembled,
sometimes on the ocean which continued to moan. Suddenly Beauvouloir
knocked on the door of his room, opened it, and showed on his saddened
face the reflection of some new misfortune.
"Monseigneur," he said, "Madame la duchesse is in so sad a state that
she wishes to see you. All precautions are taken that no harm shall
happen to you in the castle; but we must be prudent; to see her you
will have to pass through the room of Monseigneur the duke, the room
where you were born."
These words brought the tears to Etienne's eyes, and he said:--
"The Ocean _did_ speak to me!"
Mechanically he allowed himself to be led towards the door of the
tower which gave entrance to the private way leading to the duchess's
room. Bertrand was awaiting him, lantern in hand. Etienne reached the
library of the Cardinal d'Herouville, and there he was made to wait
with Beauvouloir while Bertrand went on to unlock the other doors, and
make sure that the hated son could pass through his father's house
without danger.
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