Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 13, 2025
If he makes a complaint, it is because he feels himself insulted." Saint-Aignan began to beat his foot impatiently on the ground. "This looks like a spurious quarrel," he said. "No one can possibly have a spurious quarrel with the Vicomte de Bragelonne," returned Porthos; "but, at all events, you have nothing to add on the subject of your changing your apartments, I suppose?" "Nothing.
To the Sieur Lecamus, syndic of the guild of furriers: Monseigneur le Prince de Conde desires me to express his regret that he cannot do what you ask for his late companion in the tower of Saint-Aignan, whom he perfectly remembers, and to whom, meanwhile, he offers the place of gendarme in his company; which will put your son in the way of making his mark as a man of courage, which he is.
Saint-Aignan was the very man whom Madame needed in her then state of mind. And as for him, he only looked for worthier ears than others he had found to have an opportunity of recounting the event in all its details. And so he did not spare Madame a single word of the whole affair. When he had finished, Madame said to him, "Confess, now, that is his all a charming invention."
"I will listen to nothing, Saint-Aignan." "In that case, I will continue; it is most urgent, sire pray understand me, it is of the greatest importance that Madame and her maids of honor should be absent for two hours from the palace." "I cannot understand your meaning at all, Saint-Aignan."
This was indeed a piece of good luck. Curious to learn why, and particularly what about, this man and woman were conversing at such an hour, and in such a singular position, Saint-Aignan made himself as small as he possibly could, and approached almost under the rounds of the ladder.
It was with such ideas as these, which the fire of covetousness had caused to dawn in half an hour, that Saint-Aignan, the son of earth, as La Fontaine would have said, determined to get De Guiche into conversation: in other words, to trouble him in his happiness a happiness of which Saint-Aignan was quite ignorant.
In compliance with his Majesty's wishes, M. de Mesgrigny performed the duties of M. de Saint-Aignan, who withdrew to the rear of the army to wait till the storm should be past. At the end of a few days his disgrace was ended, and all who knew him rejoiced; for the Baron de Saint-Aignan was beloved by all for his affability and loyalty. From Chatres the Emperor marched on Troyes.
Ten minutes afterwards the king's physician arrived, quite out of breath. "You will go, monsieur," said the king to him, "and accompany M. de Saint-Aignan wherever he may take you; you will render me an account of the state of the person you may see in the house you will be taken to."
At all events, if the king did not come, if the king did not write, he could not do otherwise than send Saint-Aignan, or Saint-Aignan could not do otherwise than come of his own accord.
Saint-Aignan then continued: "It is not in games of glory only, ladies, that the shepherd Tyrcis had acquired that reputation by which he was regarded as the king of the shepherds." "Of the shepherds of Fontainebleau," said the king, smilingly, to Madame. "Oh!" exclaimed Madame, "Fontainebleau is selected arbitrarily by the poet; but I should say, of the shepherds of the whole world."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking