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"He is generous and considerate," said the Duke, in the same tone. "Now, by a poor fool's conscience," said Le Glorieux apart to the Count of Crevecoeur, "I would rather be in the worst cow's hide that ever died of the murrain than in that fellow's painted coat! The poor man goes on like drunkards, who only look to the ether pot, and not to the score which mine host chalks up behind the lattice."
"It would be a right well adapted title, friend Charles," said Le Glorieux, "considering that a woman is the reward of the most valiant." "Well spoken, Sagacity," said Louis. "Cousin, good night, I will go arm me. By the way, what if I win the Countess with mine own hand? "Your Majesty," said the Duke, in an altered tone of voice, "must then become a true Fleming."
It was bare poetic justice, therefore, that the Ville de Paris, the great prize of the day, though surrounded by numerous foes, struck formally to him. The Hector, César, and Glorieux, already paralyzed ere the chase began, were the only results of this languid movement, except the French flag-ship and the Ardent, 64.
"When Power sends Folly to entreat the approach of Wisdom, 't is a sure sign what foot the patient halts upon." "How if I refuse to come, when summoned at so late an hour by such a messenger?" said Galeotti. "In that case, we will consult your ease, and carry you," said Le Glorieux.
Such was the inference of Le Glorieux, when, in consequence of the reconciliation of which we gave the particulars in the last chapter, the Burgundian guards were withdrawn from the Castle of Peronne, the abode of the King removed from the ominous Tower of Count Herbert, and, to the great joy both of French and Burgundians, an outward show at least of confidence and friendship seemed so established between Duke Charles and his liege lord.
There are likewise the works of DESTOUCHES, who has written Le Glorieux, Le Dissipateur, and La Fausse Agnes, which are always played with applause.
Under the word Laborious, we have only a dozen lines of angry reproach against the despotism that makes men idle by making property uncertain. Under such words as Frivolous, Gallantry, Perfection, Importance, Politeness, Melancholy, Glorieux, the reader is amused and edified by miniature essays on manners and character, seldom ending without some pithy sentence and pointed moral.
"Monsieur!" cried Phellion, rising and striking an attitude like that of Lafon in "Le Glorieux," "Do you despise me sufficiently to suppose that my personal interests could ever influence my political conscience? When a matter concerns the public welfare, I am a citizen nothing more, and nothing less."
"As the Duke," replied Comines, "was hastily ordering some vessels and ornaments of plate and the like, to be prepared as presents for the King and his retinue, by way of welcome on his arrival: "'Trouble not thy small brain about it, my friend Charles, said Le Glorieux, 'I will give thy cousin Louis a nobler and a fitter gift than thou canst, and that is my cap and bells, and my bauble to boot, for, by the mass, he is a greater fool than I am, for putting himself in thy power.
"By my bauble," said Le Glorieux, "if the cat resemble Burgundy, she has the right side of the grating nowadays." "True, good fellow," said Louis, laughing, while the rest of the presence, and even Charles himself, seemed disconcerted at so broad a jest. "I owe thee a piece of gold for turning some thing that looked like sad earnest into the merry game, which I trust it will end in."
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