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You must be patient." "In order to starve, when there is food as near as the Corso?" inquired the artist. "To be butchered by a Roman phlebotomist, and drenched with infusions of hay by the Principessa Montevarchi, when I might be devising means of being presented to her daughter? What do you take me for? I suppose the young lady with the divine eyes is her daughter, is she not?"
For the phlebotomist had been a constant attendant at her Friday night whist-table; and as it was she lost him, for he naturally was offended at her recovery under rival hands. What my mother was I have already said enough to show, as far as my imperfect words can show it, in divers passages of these reminiscences.
Let us therefore wait, my lord. Perhaps the loss of some of his hot blood may have cooled him. Perhaps, after all," he added, smiling, "we may have reason to thank his phlebotomist." The peer saw Sir Thomas's play, and, giving him another keen glance, replied: "I never depended much upon a dramatic repentance, my dear baronet.
The tone of it brought him up short. He turned again, Le Chapelier with him. "I said M. de La Tour d'Azyr." "What has he to do with the proposal you were making me?" "He? Why, he is the phlebotomist in chief." And Le Chapelier added. "It is he who killed Lagron." "Not a friend of yours, is he?" wondered Danton.
Those were the times when Louis XI. supplied the places of the ministers and marshals, the generals and admirals of France, the Dunois, the La Tremoilles, the Brezes and the Chabannes with mere creatures new and obscure men who aided him in his artful schemes and plans of government: he made his barber an ambassador, his tailor a herald at arms, and his phlebotomist a chancellor: he imposed enormous taxes on the people, and when the people revolted, he ordered some of the ringleaders to be torn to pieces alive by horses, and the others to be beheaded, as occurred at Rheims, Angers, Alencon and Aurillac.
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