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Try and think what you said: no, not now, there is no time, but when you are with the King, and unsay it, unsay it. And Stephen, remember, he is the King, he is the Master of France, the maker of France, and he is dying. Promise him " "Monsieur La Mothe, Monsieur La Mothe, is the King to wait all night, or shall I say Monsieur d'Argenton detains you?" "Go, boy, go.
He said at last that Madame de Maintenon had been extremely surprised with the resolution he had taken, and at the same time delighted. She assured him that it would put him on better terms than ever with the King, and that Madame d'Argenton should be treated with every consideration. I pressed M. d'Orleans to let us know how the King had received him.
It is clever, but it is the cleverness of the man who thinks only of his own interests, who makes no allowance for love, loyalty, or single-hearted duty, and judges others by himself. Is that your great King, Monsieur d'Argenton?" and Commines, answering nothing, recognized the life-likeness of the portrait.
"Stephen, cannot you trust me after all these years? What interest have I but the King's service?" "Uncle, you said proofs whose proofs?" "What is that to you? Do you forget that you are to obey my orders?" "Proofs, Monsieur d'Argenton, whose proofs?" "All do not blind themselves as you do." Round he swung upon Villon, shaking a stretched-out finger at him viciously.
In the midst of this desertion, he had no resource but debauchery, and the society of his mistress, Madame d'Argenton. The disorder and scandal of his life had for a long time offended the King, the Court, and the public. They now unhappily confirmed everybody in the bad opinion they had formed of him.
I had long seen that the only way in which he could hope to recover his position would be to give up his mistress, Madame d'Argenton, with whom he had been on terms of intimacy for many years past, to the knowledge and the scandal of all the world.
"You will forgive me if I speak too plainly, Monsieur d'Argenton, but the King was so jealous and, may I add, so generous, it would vex his ghost to think he was so soon forgotten." "Mademoiselle, I serve France, and to-night France is in Amboise." "Is the letter from Coictier, his doctor, Uncle?" Hitherto La Mothe had kept silence.
Um um when Absalom rebelled against David did Joab, the king's servant, say, 'Where is my authority? Rebellion is your authority; the safety of your King is your authority; the plot against France is your authority. For such crimes there is none above justice, Monsieur d'Argenton, none none. But justice is like truth, and sometimes dwells in shadow. Do you understand? Justice, but no scandal.
Monsieur d'Argenton, have you been imprudent careless? By God! you shall answer for it if this liar of a Saxe spits his poison at me at me. No, Philip, I do not mean just that. Yes, we rejoice that he has lied, rejoice that the Dauphin is the loving and loyal son of his loving father. We owe you much, France owes you much for this news. Yes, we rejoice we rejoice God knows how we rejoice!
"Did you think you played the part so well that you deceived us? Or that the Dauphin had sunk so low as to make a friend of the first hedge-singer who came his way? We were warned from Château-Renaud that you who arrived with Monsieur d'Argenton on horseback departed alone on foot." "That raw-boned roan which passed me on the road?" "Yes.
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