By attending exactly to your instructions I may prove worthy of the trust reposed in me.

And only so.' He embraced me again and again, with a kindness which moved me almost to tears.

'You are a man after my own heart,' he said, 'and if God wills I will make your fortune.

Now listen, my friend.

To-morrow at Court, as a stranger and a man introduced by Rambouillet, you will be the cynosure of all eyes.