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Is it not odd?" "Very droll." "I wish I could hear them." "Go in." "He forbade me to go in, saying he was going to confess." "Listen at the door." Bernouillet went, and Chicot went also to his hole: but they spoke so low that he could hear nothing, and in a few minutes Gondy rose and took leave.

"'Tis you, then, my dear count," cried Gondy, offering his hand. "You have made up your mind at last, my lord?" said Rochefort. "It has been made up a long time," said Gondy. "Let us say no more on the subject; you tell me so, I believe you. Well, we are going to give a ball to Mazarin." "I hope so." "And when will the dance begin?"

There, the grand prior and the monks of the royal abbey, in their mourning hoods, received the body of Henri IV from the hands of De Gondy, the Archbishop of Paris; and on the following day the Cardinal-Duc de Joyeuse celebrated a solemn mass and performed the funeral service of his late sovereign.

The queen advanced a few steps to meet him, and then stopped, cold, severe, unmoved, with her lower lip scornfully protruded. Gondy bowed respectfully. "Well, sir," said the queen, "what is your opinion of this riot?" "That it is no longer a riot, madame," he replied, "but a revolt."

Aerssens obtained for their use the Hotel Gondy, formerly the residence of Don Pedro de Toledo, the most splendid private palace in Paris, and recently purchased by the Queen. It was considered expedient that the embassy should make as stately an appearance as that of royal or imperial envoys.

The little Prince was privately baptized by the Cardinal de Gondy, until the state ceremonies of his christening could take place; and on the 22d of the month he was invested by the sovereign with the insignia of St.

"And could you count on fifty resolute men, good, unemployed, but active souls, brawlers, capable of bringing down the walls of the Palais Royal by crying, 'Down with Mazarin, as fell those at Jericho?" "I think," said the beggar, "I can undertake things more difficult and more important than that." "Ah, ah," said Gondy, "you will undertake, then, some night, to throw up some ten barricades?"

"Let us go and see your beggar, sir, and if he is such as you describe him, you are right it will be you who have discovered the true treasure." Gondy dressed himself as an officer, put on a felt cap with a red feather, hung on a long sword, buckled spurs to his boots, wrapped himself in an ample cloak and followed the curate.

The conversation had rested there and Scarron, through sheer obstinacy, had seen Monsieur de Gondy only the more frequently. Now, the very morning of which we speak was that of his quarter-day payment, and Scarron, as usual, had sent his servant to get his money at the pension-office, but the man had returned and said that the government had no more money to give Monsieur Scarron.

"My friend," said Gondy, "you seem to be a clever and a thoughtful man; are you disposed to take a part in a little civil war, should we have one, and put at the command of the leader, should we find one, your personal influence and the influence you have acquired over your comrades?"