12/49 How we youngsters applauded him! He told Richelieu to his face that he would be delighted to have him visit Perigny and dance the saraband before his peasant girls. He was always breaking the edicts, and but for the king he would have spent most of his time in the Bastille. He hasn't been to court in ten years." "And is this son handsome ?" "Handsome and rich, with the valor of a Crillon. The daughter of a Montbazon would never look at a clod. |