handed over to the keeping of her husband's family, who shut her
up in the keep of Kerfol, where she is said to have died many
years later, a harmless madwoman.

So ends her story. As for that of Herve de Lanrivain, I had only
to apply to his collateral descendant for its subsequent details.
The evidence against the young man being insufficient, and his
family influence in the duchy considerable, he was set free, and
left soon afterward for Paris. He was probably in no mood for a
worldly life, and he appears to have come almost immediately
under the influence of the famous M. Arnauld d'Andilly and the
gentlemen of Port Royal. A year or two later he was received
into their Order, and without achieving any particular
distinction he followed its good and evil fortunes till his death
some twenty years later. Lanrivain showed me a portrait of him
by a pupil of Philippe de Champaigne: sad eyes, an impulsive
mouth and a narrow brow. Poor Herve de Lanrivain: it was a grey
ending. Yet as I looked at his stiff and sallow effigy, in the
dark dress of the Jansenists, I almost found myself envying his
fate. After all, in the course of his life two great things had
happened to him: he had loved romantically, and he must have
talked with Pascal. . .


The End



MRS. MANSTEY'S VIEW
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