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Cosmo Ruggiero predicts his death within a year." "The dying boar has often killed the huntsman," said Charles de Gondi. "This conspiracy of the Duc d'Alencon, the king of Navarre, and the Prince de Conde, with whom La Mole and Coconnas are negotiating, is more dangerous than useful.
"I record how, some days ago, Piero di Filippo Gondi asked for permission to enter the new sacristy at S. Lorenzo, in order to hide there certain goods belonging to his family, by reason of the perils in which we are now.
The solution was altogether unexpected. Two months after the signing of the contract of foundation, Madame de Gondi was taken suddenly ill, and she died a few days later. Her broken-hearted husband not only consented to Vincent's residence in the Collège des Bons Enfants, but shortly afterwards, leaving that world where he had shone so brilliantly, he himself became a postulant at the Oratory.
"I shall not be obliged by Monsieur to carry his confounded treaty to Madrid, and I am not sorry for it; it is a somewhat touchy commission. The Pyrenees are not so easily passed as may be supposed; the Cardinal is on the road." "Ha! Ha!" cried Montresor. "Ha! Ha!" said Olivier. "Well, what is the matter with you? ah, ah!" asked Gondi. "What have you discovered that is so great?"
I avowed myself a partisan of the Fronde, and within three days the Chevalier who but a little time before had sought an alliance with the Cardinal's family had become as rabid a frondeur as M. de Gondi, as fierce an anti-cardinalist as M. de Beaufort.
"I'd like to see you on the roofs once more, monsieur le duc," remarked Tavannes. "Damned Italian cat! I wish he might break his neck!" he added in a whisper to the king. "I don't know which of us two could climb the quickest in these days," replied de Gondi; "but one thing I do know, that neither of us fears to die."
With these words they embraced once more, their eyes moist with those sweet tears which so seldom flow in one's life, but with which it seems, nevertheless, the heart is always charged, so much relief do they give in flowing. This moment was short; and during these few words, Gondi had been pulling them by their cloaks, saying: "To horse! to horse, gentlemen!
They alone of this dismal assembly were smiling. Albert Gondi, now Duc de Retz, marshal of France, and gentleman of the bed-chamber, had been deputed to marry the queen by proxy at Spire. Catherine and Charles IX. watched each other with close attention. At this gloomy court, as gloomy as the room in which it was held, each individual had his or her own reasons for being sad or thoughtful.
Having stopped two gentlemen in the service of the young Queen, whom he thought ill-affected toward the Cardinal, and consequently glad to measure weapons with his creatures, one of them said to him very gravely: "Monsieur de Gondi, you know what has just happened; the King has said aloud, 'Whether our imperious Cardinal wishes it or not, the widow of Henri le Grand shall no longer remain in exile. Imperious! the King never before said anything so strong as that, Monsieur l'Abbe, mark that.
I have seen Andrea Orcagna, Taddeo Gaddi, Giottino, Stefano, Simone Memmi men whose very colors I am not worthy to mix. And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.
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