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I told him he must be sensible he had made a false report. He made no answer." And the duke bowed him out of the room with unconcealed scorn. Kaye's Life of Sir J. Malcolm, ii., p. 109. Lamartine calls the Cordeliers the Club of Coups-de-main, as he calls the Jacobins the Club of Radical Theories. Histoire des Girondins, xvi., p. 4. Dr. Moore, ii., p. 372; Chambrier, ii., p. 142.
"I!" cried D'Artagnan. "Doubtless. You engaged your word not to serve any other prince on quitting my service. Now it was for King Charles II. that you undertook the marvelous carrying off of M. Monk." "Pardon me, sire, it was for myself." "And did you succeed?" "Like the captains of the fifteenth century, coups-de-main and adventures." "What do you call succeeding? a fortune?"
Never were opportunities better chosen, coups-de-main better supported, errors of the besieged more quickly taken advantage of. The army commanded by D'Artagnan took twelve small places within a month. He was engaged in besieging the thirteenth, which had held out five days.
"I!" cried D'Artagnan. "Doubtless. You engaged your word not to serve any other prince on quitting my service. Now it was for King Charles II. that you undertook the marvelous carrying off of M. Monk." "Pardon me, sire; it was for myself." "And did you succeed?" "Like the captains of the fifteenth century, coups-de-main and adventures." "What do you call succeeding? a fortune?"
"A thousand pardons, fairest Alida," interrupted the youth; "you know the obstacles that the jealous watchfulness of your uncle opposes to my desire to speak with you." "They are then opposed in vain, for Alderman Van Beverout has weakly believed the sex and condition of his ward would protect her from these coups-de-main." "Nay, Alida; this is being more capricious than the winds!
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