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Now, Jeanne, these dangers seem to me chimerical, these gulfs as if a child could cross them. I was cowardly, I tell you; oh, I had no time to reflect." "You speak in enigmas." "No," cried Diana, rising, "it was not my fault, it was his. The Duc d'Anjou was against him; but when one wishes a thing, when one loves, neither prince nor master should keep you back. See, Jeanne, if I loved "
"But," said I, "Madame, since you have put the question to me, I can only declare I am content to remain as I am;" and this I said because I suspected the design of separating me from my husband was in order to work some mischief against him. Henri, Duc d'Anjou, Elected King of Poland, Leaves France. Huguenot Plots to Withdraw the Duc d'Alencon and the King of Navarre from Court.
"Why," he continued, like a man aware of the need that exists of convincing himself, "why, indeed, should Remy be here in this chateau, while the Duc d'Anjou is here? What is his motive in coming here? What can the Duc d'Anjou possibly have to do with Remy? And why should he have quitted Diana he, who is her eternal companion? No; it is not he."
"Oh, oh!" thought Chicot, "the duke is not yet tired of playing for the crown with the heads of others!" "Long live Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou!" cried the assembly. The duke grew paler than ever. "Fear nothing, monseigneur," said Henri de Guise; our chapel is deaf, and its doors are well closed."
"Monsieur," said he, "we provincials are not used to the easy manners of Paris; they annoy us. It seems to me that if the Duc d'Anjou wishes to see the Baron de Meridor, it ought to be at his palace, and not at the house of one of his mistresses." "Come, come, baron!" said Bussy, with his smile, which always carried conviction with it, "do not hazard false conjectures.
Jeanne began to laugh, and gave her hand to Bussy. "Pardon my suspicions," said she. "Willingly," and taking leave he went home to prepare. Bussy and Madame de St. Luc met at the appointed time; Jeanne looked beautiful in her disguise. At the end of the Rue St. Germain-l'Auxerrois they met a large party in which Bussy recognized the Duc d'Anjou and his train.
There seemed to be no doubt of the matter. The King, immediately after getting up, called the ambassador into his cabinet, where M. le Duc d'Anjou had already arrived. Then, pointing to the Duke, he told the ambassador he might salute him as King of Spain.
But Mazarin saw from the corner of his eye that a group was about to be formed in the corner of the room, and that the Duc d'Anjou, with the Comte de Guiche, and the Chevalier de Lorraine, prevented from talking aloud, might say, in a whisper, what it was not convenient should be said.
It was my last sight of them, and I was glad of it; how far they went, and how many of them found their way back to their native land, I never was able to learn. Before I left the Rue d'Anjou, it was arranged, that, as soon as I had seen a little more of Paris, I should go to La Grange.
Until the testament of Charles II., the Duc d'Anjou was necessarily regarded as destined to be a subject all his life; and therefore could not be too much abased by education, and trained to patience and obedience: That supreme law, the reason of state, demanded this preference, for the safety and happiness of the kingdom, of the elder over the younger brother.
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