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He had been told, as others had, that his brother was engaged in conference; but the idea of closing any of the doors before Du Bouchage never occurred to any of the attendants.
The keen eye of Louis XI. was not blind to the quality of La Marche's services, and he thought that they, too, might be diverted to his use. "Monsieur du Bouchage, Guillaume de Thouars has told me that Messire Olivier de la Marche is willing to enter my service and I am afraid that there may be some deception.
"A great king like you, sire, would not care for such confidences." "Yes, Henri, yes; tell me. It will amuse me," said the king. "Sire, you deceive yourself; there is nothing in my grief that could amuse a noble heart like yours." The king took the young man's hand. "Do not be angry, Du Bouchage," said he; "you know that your king also has known the griefs of an unrequited love."
"In that case, as you speak frankly, I will reply as frankly, that I will kill you; I have full power to do so." "Kill me!" said Remy. "But if I am to serve you, I must know your projects." "Well, you have guessed rightly, my good man; I do not belong to the Comte du Bouchage." "Ah! and to whom do you belong?" "To a more powerful lord." "Take care; you are lying again." "Why so?"
His majesty also took great delight in talking of it before it arrived, and would say, "I will give so much to any man who first brings me such and such news." The Lord du Bouchage and I, being together, happened to receive the first news of the battle of Morat, and we went with it to the King, who gave each of us two hundred marks of silver.
An indefinable sensation, like a sudden terror, or an overwhelming feeling of dread, seized him, and while the worldly cardinal advanced to take the beautiful page by the hand, Henri du Bouchage darted from the apartment, and so quickly, too, that when Francois returned with the lady, smiling with the hope of winning a heart back again to the world, the room was perfectly empty.
"No, monseigneur," replied he, "M. le Comte was only asking me how much powder we had left fit to use." The answer had two aims; the first to turn away the duke's suspicions, if he had any; and the second to let Du Bouchage know that he could count on a friend in him. "Ah!" said the duke, forced to seem to believe what he was told.
"Oh! be easy, then, Du Bouchage; I know too well the importance of such an article, in our situation, to neglect it. I will watch over it myself." They said no more until they arrived, when the duke, after giving Henri many charges not to quit his post, returned. He found Aurilly wrapped in an officer's cloak, sleeping on one of the seats in the dining-room. The duke woke him. "Come," said he.
The Oratoire in the Rue Saint-Honoré, since devoted to protestant worship, was built in the year 1621 by M. de Berulle, since Cardinal, on the site of the Hôtel du Bouchage, once the residence of Gabrielle d'Estrées, the favourite mistress of Henry IV. The Convent of the Capucins, situated in the Place des Capucins, at present an Hospital.
"Most certainly you still misunderstand me, my brother," replied Du Bouchage, shaking his head, "or I should rather say your generous intelligence will not comprehend me. I do not wish for a cheerful residence or a delightful retreat, but a rigorously strict seclusion, as gloomy as the grave itself.
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