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Chamillart, a pitiful creature of Madame de Maintenon's, sat in Colbert's place; gone were Turenne and Condé and Luxembourg; the armies of the descendant of St. Louis were led by the Duke of Vendôme, a foul lecher, whose inhuman vices went far to justify the gibe of Mephistopheles that men use their reason "um thierischer als jedes Thier zu sein."
Still the thought of her was now foremost in his mind as he looked at David. We are all glad to see those who are near the one whom we love; we are even eager to seek those whom we would otherwise avoid when they are near our beloved from whom we are parted. This eagerness was in Paul Colbert's face as he looked at the boy and asked with some hesitation if he was in haste.
La Salle's memorials, which recall by way of introduction his five journeys of upward of five thousand leagues, in great part on foot, through more than six hundred leagues of unknown country among savages and cannibals, and at the cost of one hundred and fifty thousand francs, and which propose projects that seem in some of their features quixotic and visionary, received favorable consideration of the king and his minister Colbert's son.
Clearly the step was not taken with a view to placing an affront upon Frontenac. When he complained, Colbert replied that there was no other man in France who, being already a governor and lieutenant-general, would consider it an increase of honour to preside over the Council. In Colbert's eyes this was a clerk's work, not a soldier's.
Colbert's earnest manner as she pressed her fondly to her bosom, and said "God grant it, my sweet child!" but she returned the caresses so lavishly heaped upon her, and then jumped down to play with old Skip, the house-dog, who was leaping about her as if to share in the adieus. Mrs.
The man never has any such subtle resource and he knows, from first to last, that he must do what is wrong if he does not do what is right. Paul Colbert's troubled perplexity grew deeper as he continued to look at Philip Alston and to listen as he talked.
Colbert's efforts were not useless; at his death, the maritime trade of France had developed itself, and French merchants were effectually protected at sea by ships of war.
"Madame Vanel has taken Colbert's notes and sent them to me?" "No, but by a chance which resembles a miracle, she has a duplicate of those notes." "How could she get that?" "Listen; I told you that Colbert found paper on the table." "Yes." "That he took a pencil from his pocket." "Yes." "And wrote upon that paper." "Yes."
"Your pardon, monsieur; for he will refuse you the money I wish you to take; and it is that refusal I look for." "Ah!" said D'Artagnan. "Then, sire?" "The money being refused, you will go and seek it at M. Colbert's. A propos, have you a good horse?" "An excellent one, sire." "How much did it cost you?" "A hundred and fifty pistoles." "I will buy it of you.
Thence to Mr. Chichley's by invitation, and there dined with Sir John, his father not coming home. And while at dinner comes by the French Embassador Colbert's mules, the first I eversaw, with their sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and his coaches, he being to have his entry to-day: but his things, though rich, are not new; supposed to be the same his brother
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