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It would be a great help in our naval construction; we could then do without the English coal. Next year the intendant wrote again: 'The coal-mine opened at Quebec, which originated in the cellar of a lower-town resident and is continued through the cape under the Chateau Saint-Louis, could not be worked, I fear, without imperilling the stability of the chateau.
"I have received the royal promise, and to-day Talizac will have his commission, and also the order of Saint-Louis." This was an immense joy to Fongereues, and from that moment the monarchist the Marquis de Montferrand felt that Talizac, a captain in the King's Guard, could do no evil. "Forgive a mother's vanity," continued Magdalena.
After this, you will walk behind her, you will cross an arm of the Seine and she will lead you, down a lonely street in the Ile Saint-Louis, to a house which you will enter by yourself. "On the ground-floor of this house, you will find a youngish man with a very pasty complexion. Take off your cloak and then say to him: "'I have come to fetch my clasp.
His clothing, which is not an insignificant point, was invariably the same; it consisted of stout shoes, ribbed stockings, breeches of greenish velveteen, a cloth waistcoat, and a loose coat with a collar, from which hung the cross of Saint-Louis.
Messieurs de Lenoncourt, de Navarreins, de Verneuil, de Fontaine, and La Billardiere, to whom he was known, he said, obtained for him, from the king's privy purse, a pension of three hundred francs, and sent him, moreover, the cross of Saint-Louis. Never was it known positively by what means the old chevalier obtained these two solemn consecrations of his title and merits.
Three months hence Catherine Curieux will be sent to you." "Where is she?" asked Veronique. "She is now in the hospital Saint-Louis," replied the old man; "they are awaiting her recovery before sending her from Paris." "Ah! is the poor girl ill?" "You will find all necessary information in these papers," said Grossetete, giving Veronique a packet.
While making his arrangements to die, he wondered how this marvel of architecture could exist in Paris so utterly unknown. He was two Luciens one Lucien the poet, wandering through the Middle Ages under the vaults and the turrets of Saint-Louis, the other Lucien ready for suicide.
Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne spoke openly against this tax; and against the finance people, who lived upon the very marrow of the people; spoke with a just and holy anger that recalled the memory of Saint-Louis, of Louis XII., Father of the People, and of Louis the Just.
These men being strangers in the quarter, it was quite impossible to discover them later. I felt, however, that I still had a clue to him, through the organ at Saint-Louis, and the following Sunday after high mass I posted myself as before at the door of the organ loft, determined not to let go of the sphinx until I had made him speak. But here again, disappointment!
Saint-Louis was like a little kingdom, where I reigned as a sovereign; the abbess and her sister had no thought but to satisfy my every fancy, and the whole convent was forced to pay court to me.
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