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The Comte de Fiesque, who had some intellect and learning, strongly sustained his opinion. M. le Duc sustained his; and for want of better reasons, threw a plate at the head of Fiesque, drove him from the table and out of the house. So sudden and strange a scene frightened the guests.
Everybody was kissing my hands, and I almost died with laughing to see myself in such an odd position." There was no resisting the enthusiasm of the people and the soldiers. The young Countesses of Frontenac and Fiesque had constantly followed her, and climbed after her through the hole in the gate.
"You had no part to play in it, I think?" remarked Mademoiselle de Lewiston from the opposite ranks of Queen Mary's maids. "What are you reading there, madame?" asked Amyot of the Comtesse de Fiesque. "'Amadis de Gaule, by the Seigneur des Essarts, commissary in ordinary to the king's artillery," she replied.
I have since learned from Chavigny that for two long months they had been waiting that happy moment. "Apropos of the Abbe, my lord, the Queen insists upon making him coadjutor." "She is mad! he will ruin her if she connects herself with him; he's a musketeer in canonicals, the devil in a cassock. Read his 'Histoire de Fiesque'; you may see himself in it. He will be nothing while I live."
But after this, feeling that billiards three times a week interfered with his legal duties, he surrendered part of them, and thus left himself more free for other charges he was obliged to attend to. The Comtesse de Fiesque died very aged, while the Court was at Fontainebleau this year. She had passed her life with the most frivolous of the great world.
I have asked my cousin, Madame de Fiesque, to obtain it for me at the Carmelites." "You are taking a vast deal of trouble. But what kind of assembly can we muster at this dead season?" "Leave all in my hands. I will find you some of the choicest spirits. It is to be my party. I will not even tell you what night I fix upon, till all is ready.
Yesterday, when we were in the carriage, he was ready to eat us. The Comtesse de Fiesque said, 'This morning he came to see my mother-in-law, and scolded at her. Prefontaine answered: 'He wanted to throttle me. "It is a pretty enough place," she says, "for a man like him. The house is well furnished, and he gave me excellent entertainment.
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