You had sent an application to the king, I suppose?
Just so.

No doubt they got hold of it, and this is the result.

They ought to be whipped.' It was not possible for me to doubt any longer that what he said was true.

I saw in a moment all my hopes vanish, all my plans flung to the winds; and in the first shock of the discovery I could neither find voice to answer him nor strength to withdraw.

In a kind of vision I seemed to see my own lean, haggard face looking at me as in a glass, and, reading despair in my eyes, could have pitied myself.
My disorder was so great that M.du Mornay observed it.