19/32 Not that madame knew what was going on. Politics was a large word to her, embracing all those things which neither excited nor interested her. Lord love you, there were a dozen besides myself, madame's beauty being the magnet." "And the plot ?" "Mazarin's abduction and forced resignation, Conde's return from Spain and Gaston's reinstatement at court." "And your reward ?" "Hang me!" with a comical expression, "I had forgotten all about that end of it. Devil take cabals! And madame, finding out too late what had been going on, and having innocently attached her name to the paper, is gone from Paris, leaving advice for me to do the same. |