that the young prince, who had been won over to his tutor's interests and
who was listening at his mother's door, judged that his protege's
business was taking an unfavourable turn; and went in to try and put
things right. He found his mother so much alarmed that she drew him to
her by an instinctive movement, as though to put herself under his
protection, and beg and pray as he might; he could only obtain permission
for his tutor to go away undisturbed to any country of the world that he
might prefer, but with an express prohibition of ever again entering the
presence of the Count or the Countess of Lippe.

The abbe de Ganges withdrew to Amsterdam, where he became a teacher of
languages, and where his lady-love soon after came to him and married
him: his pupil, whom his parents could not induce, even when they told
him the real name of the false Lamartelliere, to share their horror of
him, gave him assistance as long as he needed it; and this state of
things continued until upon his wife attaining her majority he entered
into possession of some property that belonged to her. His regular
conduct and his learning, which had been rendered more solid by long and
serious study, caused him to be admitted into the Protestant consistory;
there, after an exemplary life, he died, and none but God ever knew
whether it was one of hypocrisy or of penitence.

As for the Marquis de Ganges, who had been sentenced, as we have seen, to
banishment and the confiscation of his property, he was conducted to the
frontier of Savoy and there set at liberty. After having spent two or
three years abroad, so that the terrible catastrophe in which he had been
concerned should have time to be hushed up, he came back to France, and
as nobody--Madame de Rossan being now dead--was interested in prosecuting
him, he returned to his castle at Ganges, and remained there, pretty well
hidden. M. de Baville, indeed, the Lieutenant of Languedoc, learned that