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And the Huguenot favourite turned back, wondering. "One minute!" the King continued, in the same forced voice. "Stay till morning in my closet. It is late now. We'll play away the rest of the night!" "Your Majesty must excuse me," Rochefoucauld answered frankly. "I am dead asleep." "You can sleep in the Garde-Robe," the King persisted. "Thank you for nothing, sire!" was the gay answer.
"Father, have my behests been fulfilled? hath Hugoline, my treasurer, dispensed the gifts that I spoke of?" "Verily yes; vault, coffer, and garde-robe stall and meuse.-are well nigh drained," answered the monk, with a sour look at the Norman, whose native avarice gleamed in his dark eyes as he heard the answer. "Thy train go not hence empty-handed," said Edward fondly.
Methought he felt his bondage bitterly, and would fain have dared to be a true king. Even at the last, he bade me to his garde-robe, and all there were unhurt. 'And wherefore obeyed you not? 'The carouse would have kept me too late for our flight. 'King's behests may not lightly be disregarded, said the old courtier, with a smile.
Old Adelbert of the Opera had lost his position. No longer, a sausage in his pocket for refreshment, did he leave his little room daily for the Opera. A young man, who made ogling eyes at Olga, of the garde-robe, and who was not careful to keep the lenses clean, had taken his place. He was hurt in his soldier's soul. There was no longer a place in the kingdom for those who had fought for it.
The king recognized his valet, who, with signs of the greatest alarm in his face, announced the Duke de Liancourt, grand maitre de la garde-robe of his majesty, who was in the antechamber, and who pressingly urged an immediate audience with the king. Louis trembled an instant, and tried to think what to do.
"Father, have my behests been fulfilled? hath Hugoline, my treasurer, dispensed the gifts that I spoke of?" "Verily yes; vault, coffer, and garde-robe stall and meuse.-are well nigh drained," answered the monk, with a sour look at the Norman, whose native avarice gleamed in his dark eyes as he heard the answer. "Thy train go not hence empty-handed," said Edward fondly.
'Tenez, ma fille, she would say, 'regardez dans ma garde-robe, et prenez autant que vous voudrez. She always spoke to me in French." Tynn wished there had been no French invented, so far as her comprehension was concerned.
On the floor above this the lady of Bayard had her own apartment, the "garde-robe" or closet where her dresses were kept, and the place where her daughters as they grew up, and any maidens who were brought up under her care, sat at their needlework, and where they slept at night. On the upper story were the rooms for the young children with their maids, and the various guest-chambers.
Louis shrugged his shoulders and set the replenished cup which he was just lifting to his mouth, on the silver waiter. At once the queen beckoned to the valet Hue to come up. "Sir," said she, commandingly, "take these things out. The king has finished his breakfast." Louis sighed, and with his eye followed the valet, who was carrying the breakfast into the garde-robe.
He saw that his two men were duly posted upon the lower landing of the stair, and then betook himself to the upper floor where slept the little Maid of Galloway. He walked slowly to the end of the passage scrutinising every recess and closet door, every garde-robe and wall press from which it was possible that the beast he had seen might have emerged.
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