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Self-possession of Marie de Medicis The Ducs de Guise and d'Epernon assemble the nobility Precautions for the security of the metropolis The first audience of the widowed Queen Impolicy of Sully The Duc d'Epernon announces to the Parliament the authorized regency of Marie By whom it is ratified Precarious position of the Queen-mother The first night of widowhood Injudicious apathy of Marie de Medicis on the subject of her husband's murder Her incautious display of favour towards the Duc d'Epernon The Duke is suspected of having been an accessory to the assassination of Henri IV He demands the punishment of the authors of the rumour A lawyer and a courtier Fearless reply of the President de Harlay to the rebuke of the Regent Suspicions against Philip of Spain Louis XIII holds his first Bed of Justice The Queen requests the support of the Parliament Return of the Court to the Louvre The Duc de Sully visits the Queen Effect of his reception The Princess-Dowager of Condé urges the return of her son to Court M. de Soissons is invited by Marie de Medicis to the capital His disappointment His arrogance A courtly falsehood Reception of M. de Soissons at the gates of Paris His numerous retinue The recompense of obedience Congratulatory deputations Trial of the regicide Ravaillac His execution Arrival of the Duc de Bouillon in Paris His quarrel with the Duc de Sully They are reconciled The Court attend a funeral service at Notre-Dame Presumption of the Duc d'Epernon Marie de Medicis devotes herself to state affairs Jealousy of the Princes of the Blood and great nobles Marie endeavours to conciliate them The Spanish Minister endeavours to prevent the return of the Prince de Condé Without success The Regent forms a council Pretensions of the nobles The Duc d'Epernon takes possession of apartments in the Louvre He leagues with the Comte de Soissons against the Prince de Condé Speculations of the Ministers Their policy Boyhood of Louis XIII A delicate position A royal rebuke Court favour The visionary Government Discontent of the citizens of Paris Unpopularity of the Regent The ex-Queen's entertainment Imprudence of Marie de Medicis Confirmation of the Edict of Nantes Return of the Prince de Condé The Regent is alarmed by his popularity Double-dealing of the Duc d'Epernon The Prince de Condé declares his intention to uphold the interests of the Regent His reception at the Louvre He rejoins his wife The Court of the Hôtel de Condé A cabal Marie is advised to arrest the Prince de Condé She refuses The secret council Indignation of Sully Mischievous advice of the Duc de Bouillon Munificence of the Regent to M. de Condé The royal treasury Venality of the French Princes The English Ambassador Royal pledges Philip of Spain proposes a double alliance with France The Regent welcomes the offer Policy of Philip The secret pledge Madame de Verneuil urges her claim to the hand of the Duc de Guise The important document A ducal dilemma The Regent discountenances the claim of the Marquise Madame de Verneuil is induced by Jeannin to withdraw her pretensions Her subsequent obscurity.
She discountenances the practice; and, if forced upon her notice, she visits it with censure, and that sort of punishment which lies within her means.
But there is much that can safely be done; there are many wise and cautious agencies at work for aid and uplift; and every little, if given to one of them, is of real help. It is sometimes said that if society discountenances luxury, the motive for hard and efficient work will be too much reduced; we need this extra spur to exertion.
"But," said Aunt Agnes, taking up the thread of her previous remark for my further edification, "however Mr. Spence may have conducted himself in the past for the sake of discipline, his habits to-day are essentially sober and serious." "Oh, dear, yes!" exclaimed Miss Kingsley; "he is intensely in earnest, and discountenances all mere vanities of life.
"It is as old as the English language, or at least as old as Wickliff. But it is unnecessary, and the best modern practice discountenances it." I felt like falling on the neck of an ally of half an hour's standing, and swearing eternal friendship. To put the matter briefly, while the outlook of the New Yorker is wider than ours, his standpoint is the same.
The King and Princess are grown as fond as if they had never been of different parties, or rather as people who always had been of different. She discountenances all opposition, and he all ambition. Prince George, who, with his two eldest brothers, is to be lodged at St. James's, is speedily to be created Prince of Wales.
Ordinarily we exaggerate the suddenness, and therefore the depth, of Peter's fall, by supposing that it took place immediately after his confession; but the narrative discountenances the idea, and merely says that Jesus then 'began' His new teaching. It was no new thought to Himself, forced on Him by the growing enmity of the nation. The cross always cast its shadow on His path.
But the Prince discountenances this custom, and it is slowly dying out, but only in the upper classes. We often took our rifles and went out into the country for a little target practice, and always succeeded in attracting a group of spectators from adjacent villages or huts.
The working of that free initiative that makes the advance of civilisation, and also the greater part of its conservation, would in effect be allowed only in the erratic members of the kept classes; where at the same time it would have to work against the side-draught of conventional usage, which discountenances any pursuit that is not visibly futile according to some accepted manner of futility.
History discountenances this assumption, and Biology plainly disproves it. Archdeacon Pratt supposes that Shem, Ham, and Japheth "had in them elements differing as widely as the Asiatic, the African, and the European, differ from each other." He forgets that they were brothers, sons of the same father and presumably of the same mother! Such extraordinary evolution throws Darwinism into the shade.
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