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Parry?" said the young man, with a kind of coolness tempered by a desire to make himself agreeable to the princess. "Well, his majesty begs your grace to present this gentleman to her royal highness the Princess Henrietta." "In the first place, what is the gentleman's name?" said the duke, haughtily. D'Artagnan, as we know, was easily affronted, and the Duke of Buckingham's tone displeased him.
But for Buckingham's sins, in particular, he is the regular and uniform sponsor; and I am convinced his Grace expects Christian should suffer every penalty he has incurred, in this world or the next." "Not so," with the deepest reverence replied the Duke. "I have no hope of being either hanged or damned by proxy; but it is clear some one hath tampered with and altered my device.
As she was then placed through the death of the Duchess of Orleans, a convent was the only retreat Mademoiselle Querouaille could look forward to in France; and as religious seclusion was not at all congenial to the lively nymph, she was not found impracticable to Buckingham's overtures. Nor were the latter's efforts entirely disinterested in the matter.
Parry?" said the young man, with a kind of coolness tempered by a desire to make himself agreeable to the princess. "Well, his majesty begs your grace to present this gentleman to her royal highness the Princess Henrietta." "In the first place, what is the gentleman's name?" said the duke, haughtily. D'Artagnan, as we know, was easily affronted, and the Duke of Buckingham's tone displeased him.
In order to engage them to take part in it, a very refined and a very mean artifice was fallen upon by the king. * Duke of Buckingham's character of King Charles II.
"I have told you Buckingham's motive, and therefore his conduct will no longer surprise you. Have you heard of the wager between De Gondomar and the Marquis, in consequence of which a trial of skill is to be made in the Tilt-yard to-morrow? Mounchensey is to run against Buckingham, and I leave you to guess what the result will be. I myself am to be among the jousters."
As this indiscreet lover was a frequent guest at the Duke of Buckingham's table, he was continually employing his rhetoric on this subject, and he had full opportunity for his harangues; for they generally sat down to dinner at four o'clock, and only rose just in time for the play in the evening.
Light hearts are thus constituted; while they themselves continue untouched, they roughly break off with every one who may possibly interfere with their little calculations of selfish comfort. Madame had received Buckingham's smiles and attentions and sighs while he was present; but what was the good of sighing, smiling and kneeling at a distance?
I have a supreme disgust for the man who at the hustings has no opinion beyond or above the clamour round him. How such a fellow would have kissed the ground before a Pompadour, or waited for hours in a Buckingham's antechamber, only to catch the faintest beam of reflected light from royalty. But I declare we have been just like schoolboys talking about forms of government and so on.
The interest of this romance was presently intensified by the introduction of a rival in the person of the Duke of Buckingham. Probably from fear an intrigue with such a prominent figure would, if indulged in, quickly become known to the king, she refused to encourage Buckingham's love.
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