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I shall find people who will talk." Then he pushed the journalist into a corner and, altering his tone, said in accents of victory: "It's tomorrow, eh? I'm of the party, my bully!" "Indeed!" muttered Fauchery with some astonishment. "You didn't know about it. Oh, I had lots of bother to find her at home. Besides, Mignon never would leave me alone." "But they're to be there, are the Mignons."
It is needless to add, that neither in his own judgment nor in that of his mignons, were the constitutional articles which he had recently sworn to support, or the solemn treaty which he had signed and sealed at Bordeaux, to furnish any obstacles to his seizure of unlimited power, whenever the design could be cleverly accomplished. He rested not, day or night, in the elaboration of his plan.
A "soi-disant" fashionable Parisian is never without introductions, and he was invited at the instance of a friend of the Mignons to a fete given at Ingouville. He fell in love with Bettina and with her fortune, and in three months he had done the work of seduction and enticed her away.
It is needless to add, that neither in his own judgment nor in that of his mignons, were the constitutional articles which he had recently sworn to support, or the solemn treaty which he had signed and sealed at Bordeaux, to furnish any obstacles to his seizure of unlimited power, whenever the design could be cleverly accomplished. He rested not, day or night, in the elaboration of his plan.
After the death of Henri III, M. de la Châtre embraced the cause of the League, when the Duc de Mayenne, at the solicitation of M. de Guise, created him Marshal of France, in which character he assisted at what were called by the Leaguers the States of Paris. François de la Grange, Seigneur de Montigny and de Sery, was a member of the Court of Henri III, and was one of his mignons.
"Poulet chasseur, filets mignons sauce bearnaise," the man suggested. "You'll give us what I tell you," said Lady Agnes; and she mentioned with distinctness and authority the dishes of which she desired that the meal should be composed.
The day before yesterday, for instance, he had a regular fit of it after our usual row, and I wasn't the least bit reassured when all was over." But she broke off, crying out: "Just look at the Mignons arriving. Dear me, they've brought the children! Oh, how those little chaps are dressed up!"
A violent, headstrong, handsome, rapacious prince, terribly prodigal, thoroughly Oriental, surrounded by dancers and mignons, living in state with a queen for mistress, startling even Rome with the uproar of his debauches no sooner was Vespasian gone than presto! the queen went home, the dancers disappeared, the debauches ceased, and a ruler appeared who declared he had lost a day that a good action had not marked; a ruler who could announce that no one should leave his presence depressed.
These worthless mignons applauded their weak master to the echo; whereupon the Duke leaped from his bed, and kneeling on the floor in his night-gown, raised his eyes and his clasped hands to heaven, and piously invoked the blessing of the Almighty upon the project which he had thus announced.
And those groups of effeminate fops, with low collars and painted eyebrows, whose embroidered lawn shirts and white satin corsets aroused admiration in the guest chambers at Compiègne; mignons of Agrippa's day, who called one another: "My heart," or "My dear love."
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