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De Rosny calmly intimated to the Advocate that this was asking something entirely beyond his power to grant, as the special object of his mission was to form a plan of concerted action with England.
The story of his death, as I had heard it from that accursed monk in the inn on the Claine, rose up in all its freshness, with all its details. I started when M. de Rambouillet coughed. I shivered when Rosny shifted his feet. The silence grew oppressive.
'Have I not told you, M. de Rosny replied, betraying for the first time some irritation, 'that he has greater need of your services than ever? Come, man, be reasonable, or, better still, listen to me. And turning from me, he began to walk up and down the room, his hands behind him.
Arthur Lillie, in Buddha and Buddhism, makes the following quotation from M. Leon de Rosny: The astonishing points of contact between the popular legend of Buddha and that of Christ, the almost absolute similarity of the moral lessons given to the world between these two peerless teachers of the human race, the striking affinities between the customs of the Buddhists and the Essenes, of whom Christ must have been a disciple, suggest at once an Indian origin to Primitive Christianity.
Though I entered first in my assumed capacity of leader of the party, he let me pass before him without comment, but rose and solemnly saluted M. de Rosny, albeit the latter walked behind me and was much more plainly dressed.
"Why, you are as bad as M. de Rosny and the Vidame!" he said. "And they are as full of fears as an egg is of meat! Since the Admiral was wounded by that scoundrel on Friday, they think all Paris is in a league against us." "And why not?" she asked, her cheek grown pale, her eyes reading his eyes. "Why not? Why, because it is a monstrous thing even to think of!"
'My purpose? he answered, his eyes glittering. 'To show you that you are in my power. You are the agent of M. de Rosny. I, the agent, however humble, of the Holy Catholic League. Of your movements I know all. What do you know of mine? 'Knowledge, I made grim answer, 'is not everything, sir priest. 'It is more than it was, he said, smiling his thin-lipped smile.
M. de Rosny tells me that you desire a commission at Court, sir, the king said quickly. 'I, sire? I stammered, scarcely able to believe my ears. I was so completely taken aback that I could say no more, and I stopped there with my mouth open. 'There are few things I can deny M. de Rosny, Henry continued, speaking very rapidly, 'and I am told that you are a gentleman of birth and ability.
Yet in this case it was suggested by Cecil that the chief reliance of his Government would be on the debts owed by the Dutch and French respectively, which would then be forthwith collected. De Rosny was now convinced that Cecil was trifling with him, and evidently intending to break off all practical negotiations.
"For whom did you take me?" "Not for the King, sire," she answered, with a gleam of roguishness. "You told me that the King was a good man, whose benevolent impulses were constantly checked " "Ah!" "By M. de Rosny, his Minister."
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