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"Let all else withdraw a few paces," said Hugh Calveley, "and do thou, O King, approach me. What I have to say is for thine ear alone." "There will be no danger in granting his request?" inquired James of his physician. "None whatever," replied Doctor Mayerne Turquet. "The only danger is in delay. Your Majesty should lose no time. The man is passing rapidly away.
Mayerne, whenever Charles was ill, used to be more at Hollywell than at his own house, and there were few days that he did not dine there.
On the side of the chapel is a slab to the memory of Count Zinzendorf, who died in 1760. The original house was built by Theodore Turquet de Mayerne, some time before the middle of the seventeenth century. De Mayerne was Court physician to Henry IV. and Louis XIII. of France. About twenty years later it was bought by Montague Bertie, second Earl of Lindsey, whose son rebuilt or altered it largely.
It was never proved that it was Anne Turner and Lady Essex who corrupted the lad Reeves, who with Weston administered the poisoned clyster that murdered Overbury. Nothing was done at all to absolve the apothecary Loubel, Reeves's master, of having prepared the poisonous injection, nor Sir Theodore Mayerne, the King's physician, of having been party to its preparation.
Anne was, on her husband's side, slightly related to the new Queen of Prussia, wife of the king with the hundred chamberlains. She had her portrait painted on enamel, after the process of Turquet of Mayerne. This Queen of Prussia had also a younger illegitimate sister, the Baroness Drika. One day, in the presence of Barkilphedro, Anne asked the Russian ambassador some question about this Drika.
'You bring no good news? said she, sadly, as she read the answer in his face. 'O! how I wish you had. It would be such a comfort now. You have heard about poor Charlie? 'Yes; and very sorry I am. But, Laura, is it really thought that accident could have occasioned it? 'Dr. Mayerne does not think so, only Mr. Thompson talked of remote causes, when Amy mentioned it.
But I forget, what is to be done about your daughter? 'I don't know what harm it could do her, said Amy, considering. 'Mrs. Gresham brought a baby of only three months old from Scotland the other day, and she is six. It surely cannot hurt her, but we will ask Dr. Mayerne. 'Mamma will never forgive us if we don't take the doctor into our councils. 'Arnaud can manage for us.
Mayerne; I was very glad of him, to keep off those hunting friends of Mr. Brownlow, who never ask anything but if one has been to the races, and if one likes balls. 'And how did Mrs. Brownlow behave? said Charles. 'She is a wonderful woman, said Mrs. Edmonstone, in her quiet way; and Guy with an expression between drollery and simplicity, said, 'Then there aren't many like her.
I only want to be stupefied till the world has turned round, and then you may wake me. Philip shook hands with Dr. Mayerne, and, without betraying a shade of annoyance, wished Charles good night; but Charles had drawn the coverings over his head, and would not hear him. 'Poor fellow! said Philip to Laura, when they were out of the room.
She carried her doubts to Charles and Amabel, who both pronounced that the thought of going to Redclyffe seemed far worse for him than any degree of employment that occupation of the mind was the best thing for his spirits; and ended by recommending that Dr. Mayerne should be consulted. He was of the same opinion.
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