His friendship for Henry could not be of use to him with the delicate-featured, double-chinned, smooth and sluggish Florentine, who had passively authorized and actively profited by her husband's murder.
It was time for the Envoy to be gone.

The Queen-Regent and Concini thought so.

And so did Villeroy and Sillery and the rest of the old servants of the King, now become pensionaries of Spain.

But Aerssens did not think so.

He liked his position, changed as it was.