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"Very well, then, you have nothing to do but to see and hear, like all other ambassadors, and the library will do excellently for that purpose. Look with all your eyes, and listen with all your ears, my dear Chicot. D'Aubiac, let the ambassador enter." Chicot hastened to his place of concealment, and drew the tapestry close.
The king then began to write and to mark the maps. "Oh! this is the way Henri of Navarre makes love," thought Chicot. At this moment he heard steps behind him, and fearful of being surprised, he turned hastily away, and, seeing the page, asked for his room. "Come with me, if you please, monsieur," said D'Aubiac, "and I will conduct you." Chicot began to understand the king of Navarre.
Gris, you are right, Chicot; and I, who forgot that you are an ambassador, and represent King Henri III., and that he is the brother of Marguerite, and that consequently, before you, I ought to place her before every one but you must excuse my imprudence, I am not accustomed to ambassadors." At this moment the door of the room opened, and D'Aubiac announced, "The ambassador from Spain."
"However, dear M. d'Aubiac," said Chicot, with his most charming smile, "I am neither the one nor the other, but an ambassador, very tired from having talked Latin with the queen and supped with the king; let me go out then, my friend, for I want a walk." "In the city, M. Chicot?" "Oh no! in the gardens." "Peste! that is still more forbidden than in the city."
Chicot now extinguished the light, opened his door softly, and began to creep downstairs on tip-toe. He went into an antechamber, but he had hardly gone four steps before he kicked against something. This something was D'Aubiac lying on a mat. "Ah! good-evening, M. d'Aubiac," said Chicot, "but get out of the way a little, I beg; I want to go for a walk."
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