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Mesmin meeting this with the confident assertion that he would abduct her within a week, wherever she was confined, Saintonge, desperate as a baited bull, and trembling with rage for the threat was uttered at Zamet's and was repeated everywhere avowed equally publicly that since the King would give him no satisfaction he would take the law into his own hands, and serve this impudent braggart as Guise served St.
He nodded. "And you cannot hinder him?" He shrugged his shoulders grimly. "No," he said; "he is a St. Germain." "Well, that is just my case," I answered. "You see this young fellow St. Mesmin was commended to me, and is, in a manner, of my household; and that is a fatal objection. I cannot possibly act against him in the manner you propose.
Germain, a young spark as proud and headstrong as St. Mesmin himself, and possessed of friends equal to his expectations, flung back a haughty refusal. He had the advantage in station and popularity; and by far the larger number of those present sided with him.
Getting a LETTRE DE CACHET or anything else you please, and away with him." "What! St. Germain?" I said. "No!" M. de Saintonge answered, prolonging the sound to the utmost. "St. Mesmin!" "Oh," I said, "I see." "Yes," the Marquis retorted pettishly, "but I don't. I don't see.
Lest this should happen and the worst traditions of old days of disorder be renewed, I interposed and managed at length to procure silence. "For shame, gentlemen, for shame!" the King said, gnawing his moustachios after a fashion he had when in doubt. "I take Heaven to witness that I cannot say who is right! But this brawling does no good. The one fact we have is that St. Mesmin has disappeared."
They stationed a lad in the roof of the church, who rapped with a piece of wood, and made a great noise 'when they mumbled their prayers at night'. St. Mesmin appealed to the king, the Fathers were imprisoned, and the youth was kept in Fumee's house, and plied with questions. He confessed the trick, and the friars were punished.
Mesmin; though an attack of the small-pox, which disfigured him beyond the ordinary, led him to leave Paris soon after his marriage. He was concerned, I believe, in the late ill-advised rising in the Vivarais; and at that time his wife still lived.
Germain; and that the King, after glancing from face to face in puzzled perplexity, began to make a shrewd guess at the truth. "This is a very timely return, M. de St. Mesmin," he said drily. "Yes, sire," the young impertinent answered, not a whit abashed. "Very timely, indeed." "Yes, sire. And the more as St.
Wherever Mademoiselle's presence was to be expected, St. Mesmin appeared, dressed in the extreme of the fashion and wearing either a favour made of her colours or a glove which he asserted that she had given him.
A dozen voices crying simultaneously, "Have a care!" and "Not here! not here!" and all looking the same way, I was able to detect the three principals in the FRACAS. They were no other than M. de St. Mesmin, Barradas a low fellow, still remembered, who was already what Saintonge had prophesied that the former would become and young St. Germain, the eldest son of M. de Clan.
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