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"Ideas are behind selfish interests," replied Chiverni. "Under Louis XI. the idea was the great Fiefs " "Make heresy an axe," said Albert de Gondi, "and you will escape the odium of executions." "Ah!" cried the queen, "but I am ignorant of the strength and also of the plans of the Reformers; and I have no safe way of communicating with them.
What can he want better?" added Chiverni, pointing to the precipices which surrounded the chateau. "There is no place in the world where the court is more secure from attack than it is here." "Abdicate or reign," said Albert in a low voice to the queen, who stood motionless and thoughtful.
Thank you, no, my daughter-in-law! but I wish you the fate of being a prisoner in your own home, that you may know what you have made me suffer." "Their plans!" exclaimed Chiverni; "the duke and the cardinal know what they are, but those two foxes will not divulge them.
"The Prince de Conde was there, madame," said Chiverni, "but he could not persuade the Connetable to join him. Monsieur de Montmorency wants to overthrow the Guises, who have sent him into exile, but he will not encourage heresy." "What will ever break these individual wills which are forever thwarting royalty?
M. Chiverni, who is a little, meagre-faced, ugly old man, said pleasantly enough, "I knew very well I had nothing to fear when I should show them my face and figure." As soon as they saw him they suffered him to get quietly into his chair and to enter the gates of the palace. On the 10th of December , Law withdrew; he is now at one of his estates about six miles from Paris.
Is the widow of your former master of less importance in your esteem than the Sieurs Vieilleville, Birago, and Chiverni?" "Madame," replied the cardinal, in a tone of gallantry, "our duty as men, taking precedence of that of statecraft, forbids us to alarm the fair sex by false reports. But this morning there is indeed good reason to confer with you on the affairs of the country.
These two Florentines maintained in the interests of the queen-mother another Italian, Birago, a clever Piedmontese, who pretended, with Chiverni, to have abandoned their mistress, and gone over to the Guises, who encouraged their enterprises and employed them to watch Catherine. Chiverni had come from Paris and Ecouen.
"Gentlemen," said Catherine, "if I go over openly to the Reformers I shall become the slave of a party." "Madame," said Chiverni, eagerly, "I approve entirely of your meaning. You must use them, but not serve them." "Though your support does, undoubtedly, for the time being lie there," said Charles de Gondi, "we must not conceal from ourselves that success and defeat are both equally perilous."
"Well, did Monsieur l'Hopital send me no other message?" "He told me to say to you, madame, that you alone could stand between the Crown and the Guises." "Does he think that I ought to use the Huguenots as a weapon?" "Ah! madame," cried Chiverni, surprised at such astuteness, "we never dreamed of casting you into such difficulties." "Does he know the position I am in?" asked the queen, calmly.
He was pursued even to the altar, where he found a little door opened which led into the convent. He rushed through and shut it after him, by which means he saved his life. M. de Chiverni, the tutor of the Duc de Chartres, was going into the Palais Royal in a chair, when a child about eight years old cried out, "There goes Law!" and the people immediately assembled.
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