Concini and his wife are urging the Queen obstinately to send for this fanatic.

If she should come, there is no doubt that my wife and I shall squabble well about her.

If I discover more about these private plots of hers with Spain, I shall be in a mighty passion." And the King then assured the faithful minister of his conviction that all the jealousy affected by the Queen in regard to the Princess of Conde was but a veil to cover dark designs.

It was necessary in the opinion of those who governed her, the vile Concini and his wife, that there should be some apparent and flagrant cause of quarrel.

The public were to receive payment in these pretexts for want of better coin.
Henry complained that even Sully and all the world besides attributed to jealousy that which was really the effect of a most refined malice.
And the minister sometimes pauses in the midst of these revelations made in his old age, and with self-imposed and shuddering silence intimates that there are things he could tell which are too odious and dreadful to be breathed.
Henry had an invincible repugnance to that coronation on which the Queen had set her heart.