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"Moreover," remarked Chiverni, "you are sure of Amyot, who will always fear poison in case of disobedience; so that you and he and Gondi can hold the king in leading-strings." "Amyot has deeply offended me," said Catherine. "He does not know what he owes to you; if he did know, you would be in danger," replied Birago, gravely, emphasizing his words.
The queen-mother, under pretence of examining the observatory then in process of construction, walked in that direction accompanied by the two Gondis, glancing with a suspicious and inquisitive eye at the group of enemies who were still standing at the farther end of the terrace, and from whom Chiverni now detached himself to join the queen-mother.
That is why he is so anxious to get here and give you his vote at the councils." "Is he sincere?" asked Catherine. "You know very well that if the Lorrains have put him in the council it is that he may help them to reign." "L'Hopital is a Frenchman who comes of too good a stock not to be honest and sincere," said Chiverni; "Besides, his note is a sufficiently strong pledge."
"Nothing so long as that son lives! His little wife bewitches him," she added after a pause. This woman, whose name and life have eluded history, foretold one year as the length of Francois's reign. "Give me your opinion on all this," said Catherine to Chiverni. "We shall have a battle," replied the prudent courtier. "The king of Navarre " "Oh! say the queen," interrupted Catherine.
"True, the queen," said Chiverni, smiling, "the queen has given the Prince de Conde as leader to the Reformers, and he, in his position of younger son, can venture all; consequently the cardinal talks of ordering him here." "If he comes," cried the queen, "I am saved!" Thus the leaders of the great movement of the Reformation in France were justified in hoping for an ally in Catherine de' Medici.
As for Saint-Andre, he was in charge of military measures taken with the object of driving all Reformers under arms into Amboise; a scheme which now formed the subject of a council held by the duke and cardinal, Birago, Chiverni, Vieilleville, and Saint-Andre.
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.
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.
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