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It was then only the coachman perceived the grooms were not behind the vehicle; he fancied monsieur le coadjuteur had sent them back, and without dropping the reins he sprang from his box to open the door.
"Just so," the priest assented, acquiring confidence, I thought. "And Madame desires to go?" "Surely! Why not?" "Well," the Vidame drawled, his manner such as to bring the blood to Madame de Pavannes' cheek, "it depends on the person who to use your phrase, M. le Coadjuteur spirited her hither."
"No," was the reply. "Look at the arms." The sergeant put his lantern close to the pannel. "They are those of M. le Coadjuteur," said he. "Hush!" said d'Artagnan. "Madam de Guéménée is with him." The sergeant laughed. "Open the gate," said he; "I know who it is." Then, approaching the mantelet "Much pleasure, Monseigneur," said he.
"Would it be to give up Broussel, sir? If so, you can spare yourself the trouble." "No," said Mazarin; "although, perhaps, that counsel is as good as any other." "Then what may it be?" "To call for monsieur le coadjuteur." "The coadjutor!" cried the queen, "that dreadful mischief maker! It is he who has raised all this revolt."
Then old Monsieur Guitauet, the Colonel of the Guards, declared 'that the old rogue Broussel must be surrendered, dead or alive. 'The former step would not be accordant with the Queen's piety nor her justice, broke in the Coadjutor; 'the second might stop the tumult. 'I understand you, M. le Coadjuteur, broke out the Queen. 'You want me to set Broussel at liberty.
Thus the conversation began, and the Cardinal making a sign to the Queen, Madame de Chevreuse had a long conference that night with her Majesty, who gave her this billet for me, written and signed with her own hand: Notwithstanding what has passed and what is now doing, I cannot but persuade myself that M. le Coadjuteur is in my interest.
When in a nation at any time there is a people apart thus constituted, the historian is pretty certain to find some representative figure, some central personage who embodies the qualities and the defects of the whole party to which he belongs; there is Coligny, for instance, among the Huguenots, the Coadjuteur in the time of the Fronde, the Marechal de Richelieu under Louis XV, Danton during the Terror.
Thus the conversation began, and the Cardinal making a sign to the Queen, Madame de Chevreuse had a long conference that night with her Majesty, who gave her this billet for me, written and signed with her own hand: Notwithstanding what has passed and what is now doing, I cannot but persuade myself that M. le Coadjuteur is in my interest.
The First President called out "Order!" and said, "MM. de Beaufort, le Coadjuteur, and Broussel, you are accused, and you must withdraw." As Beaufort and I were leaving our seats, Broussel stopped us, saying, "Neither you, gentlemen, nor I are bound to depart till we are ordered to do so by the Court. The First President, whom all the world knows to be our adversary, should go out if we must."
His Duchess, perceiving that this expedient, if not supported effectually, would ruin all, and that his Royal Highness was still as irresolute as ever, called for pen and ink that lay upon the table in her cabinet, and wrote these words on a large sheet of paper: M. le Coadjuteur is ordered to take arms to hinder the adherents of Cardinal Mazarin, condemned by the Parliament, from carrying the King out of Paris.
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