10/33 "If you have any orders in the monkish direction--no? M.de Rochefoucauld is beginning to wonder what is keeping your Majesty from your game. And others are marking you, sire." "By the Lord!" Charles exclaimed, a ring of wonder mingled with horror in his tone, "if they knew what was in our minds they'd mark us more! Yet, see Nancay there beside the door? He looks to-day as he looked yesterday. Yet he has charge of the work in the palace--" For the first time Tavannes allowed a movement of surprise to escape him. |