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But this rather served to make matters worse than better, for Maugiron and his party began to attack him with such violent speeches as would have offended any one of far less consequence.
"You do not mind it?" "Not the least in the world. I will go at once if you wish it." "One moment; as you go, just call on M. Schomberg and make him the same proposal." "Schomberg too? Diable, how you go on! Well, as you wish." "Then, my dear St. Luc, as you are so amiable, go also to M. Maugiron, and ask him to join the party." "What, three! Bussy, you cannot mean it. I hope that is all."
"Against whom?" "Against your enemies." "Private enmities of young men?" "Oh! sire, that is the expression of vulgar prejudice; speak like a king, sire, not like a bourgeois. Do not profess to believe that Maugiron detests Antragues, that Schomberg dislikes Livarot, that D'Epernon is jealous of Bussy, and that I hate Ribeirac. Oh! no.
This was unknown to the King; but Maugiron, who had engrossed the King's favour, and who had quitted my brother's service, sought every means to ruin him, as it is usual for those who have given offence to hate the offended party.
"You are right, Chicot, and my mother is right. I will call the Swiss." "Oh, yes! Quelus has got them." "My guards, then." "Schomberg has them." "My household at least." "They have gone with Maugiron." "Without my orders?" "And when do you ever give orders, except, perhaps, to flagellate either your own skin, or that of others? But about government.
The people had for these favorites of the king none of the hatred which they had felt toward Maugiron, Quelus, and Schomberg. Henri saluted the people gravely; then, turning to the young men, he said, "Anne, lean against the tapestry; it may last a long time." "I hope so," said Catherine. "You think, then, that Salcede will speak, mother?" "God will, I trust, give this confusion to our enemies."
My brother's amiable qualities excited the jealousy of Maugiron and the rest of his cabal about the King's person, and their dislike for Bussi was not so much on his own account as because he was strongly attached to my brother.
And he pushed him into the next room, where the astonished musician perceived D'Epernon before a mirror, occupied in stiffening his mustachios, while Maugiron, seated near the window, was cutting out engravings, by the side of which the bas-reliefs on the temple of Venus Aphrodite would have looked holy.
And for Henry of Valois, he so loves a monk that you might better accuse his mistress. But for you, I have only to cry "Ho! a Huguenot and a spy!" and though he loved you more than he loved Quelus or Maugiron, he dare not stretch out a finger to save you! I knew that he spoke the truth, and with difficulty maintained the air of indifference with which I had entered on the interview.
They may say," continued he, looking at Maugiron and Quelus, "that my friends abandon me, but they shall never say that I abandon them." "Thanks, sire," said a voice behind Henri; "thanks, but here I am; I extricated myself without assistance; but, mein Gott! it was not without trouble." "It is Schomberg's voice," cried all, "but where the devil is he?"
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