But as we have his entire confidence, here are the daily accounts of their interviews." "I shall not trouble myself to read them; while the Duc de Bouillon remains in Italy I have nothing to fear in that quarter.

She may have as many petty plots with Gaston in the chimney-corner as she pleases; he never got beyond his excellent intentions, forsooth! He carries nothing into effect but his withdrawal from the kingdom.

He has had his third dismissal; I will manage a fourth for him whenever he pleases; he is not worth the pistol-shot you had the Comte de Soissons settled with, and yet the poor Comte had scarce more energy than he." And the Cardinal, reseating himself in his chair, began to laugh gayly enough for a statesman.
"I always laugh when I think of their expedition to Amiens.

They had me between them, Each had fully five hundred gentlemen with him, armed to the teeth, and all going to despatch me, like Concini; but the great Vitry was not there.

They very quietly let me talk for an hour with them about the hunt and the Fete Dieu, and neither of them dared make a sign to their cut-throats.