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After he had bowed to them, he came toward the group, among which were Pompadour, D'Harmental, and Valef. "Come, my dear Malezieux," said Pompadour, "we are waiting for you most impatiently. We have just arrived from the four quarters of the globe, it appears.
Is not that true, chevalier? Well, what the devil are you about now?" "Wait, abbe," answered D'Harmental; "I seem to recognize yes, by Heaven, it is he! You will not go away from this place, gentlemen!" "No, I answer for myself at least," said Pompadour. "Nor I," said Valef. "Nor I," said Malezieux. "Nor I," said the abbe. "Well, then, I will rejoin you in an instant."
Malezieux pretends that it is a Spanish letter, addressed to the Duchess, and that he had translated it for her, with the assistance of the Cardinal de Polignac; and yet the letters of Alberoni to the Prince de Cellamara refer so directly to this projet that it is easy to see that they spring from the same source.
Meanwhile Madame de Maine was introduced by an usher into the most retired part of the palace, and the seven ambassadors having thrown off caps and cloaks, she found herself surrounded by the Prince de Cellamare, Cardinal Polignac, the Marquis de Pompadour, the Comte de Laval, the Baron de Valef, the Chevalier d'Harmental, and Malezieux.
She must see the regent, and at once; the life of a man depends upon it it is that of D'Harmental, whom I would myself give so much to save." "I go, madame," said Malezieux.
"No, no," said Malezieux; "a press is too dangerous a means. One of the police may easily slip in among the workmen, and all will be lost. Besides, there cannot be much left to print." "The greater part is done," said Laval. "Well," continued Malezieux, "my advice is, as before, to employ some intelligent copyist, whose silence we can buy." "Yes, this will be much safer," said Polignac.
"His excellency the Prince de Cellamare." "Ah!" said Pompadour, "I begin to understand." "And I," said Valef. "And I," said D'Harmental. "Very well," said Malezieux, smiling; "and before the end of the evening you will understand still better; meanwhile, do not try to see further. It is not the first time you have entered with your eyes bandaged, Monsieur d'Harmental?"
It was agreed that the next day at two o'clock the duchess, Pompadour, Laval, Valef, Malezieux, and Brigaud, should meet at No. 15, Faubourg Saint Antoine, a house occupied by D'Avranches' mother, and that they should there await the event.
M. d'Armenouville is Secretary of State for the Navy; M. le Blanc, for the Army; M. de la Vrilliere, for the Home Department; the Abbe Dubois, for Foreign Affairs; M. de Maurepas, for the Royal Household; and a Bishop for the Church Benefices. Malezieux and the Cardinal de Polignac had probably as great a share in the answer to Fitz-Morris as the Duchesse du Maine.
The more the affair is examined, the more clearly does the guilt of the Duke and Duchess appear; for three days ago, Malezieux, who is in the Bastille, gave up his writing-desk. The first thing that was found in it was a projet, which Malezieux had written at the Duchess's bedside, and which Cardinal de Polignac had corrected with his own hand.
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