Within an hour after Saint-Aignan's new resolution, he was in possession of the two rooms; and ten minutes later Malicorne entered, followed by the upholsterers.

During this time, the king asked for Saint-Aignan; the valet ran to his late apartments and found M.
Dangeau there; Dangeau sent him on to De Guiche's, and Saint-Aignan was found there; but a little delay had of course taken place, and the king had already exhibited once or twice evident signs of impatience, when Saint-Aignan entered his royal master's presence, quite out of breath.
"You, too, abandon me, then," said Louis XIV., in a similar tone of lamentation to that with which Caesar, eighteen hundred years previously, had pronounced the _Et tu quoque_.
"Sire, I am far from abandoning you, for, on the contrary, I am busily occupied in changing my lodgings." "What do you mean?
I thought you had finished moving three days ago." "Yes, sire.

But I don't find myself comfortable where I am, so I am going to change to the opposite side of the building." "Was I not right when I said you were abandoning me ?" exclaimed the king.

"Oh! this exceeds all endurance.

But so it is: there was only one woman for whom my heart cared at all, and all my family is leagued together to tear her from me; and my friend, to whom I confided my distress, and who helped me to bear up under it, has become wearied of my complaints and is going to leave me without even asking my permission." Saint-Aignan began to laugh.