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The Suitors of Yvonne

CHAPTER XIX
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You may depend that I should have remarked it.

After I had taken Canaples away, the Cardinal, I am told, sat down, and, still trembling with rage, wrote a letter which he straightway dispatched to the Chevalier Armand de Canaples, at Blois.
"No doubt," I mused, "he attributes much blame to me for what has come to pass." "Not a doubt of it.

This morning he said to me that it was a pity your wings had not been clipped before you left Paris, and that his misplaced clemency had helped to bring him great misfortunes.

You see, therefore, M.de Luynes, that your sojourn in France will be attended with great peril.

I advise you to try Spain; 't is a martial country where a man of the sword may find honourable and even profitable employment." His counsel I deemed sound.


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