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Message from the Duc d'Anjou, Afterwards Henri III., to King Charles His Brother and the Queen-mother. Her Fondness for Her Children. Their Interview. Anjou's Eloquent Harangue. The Queen-mother's Character. Discourse of the Duc d'Anjou with Marguerite. She Discovers Her Own Importance. Engages to Serve Her Brother Anjou. Is in High Favour with the Queenmother.
It was not so much the actual words she heard, though these were the phrases 'mon ange, my heart, my love; those were common, and Diane had lived in the Queen-mother's squadron long enough to despise those who uttered them only less than those who believed them.
After passing the Queen-mother's desolate palace the boat crept along near the Middlesex shore, till it stopped at the bottom of a flight of stone steps, against which the tide washed with a pleasant rippling sound, and above which there rose the walls of a stately building facing south-west; small as compared with Somerset and Northumberland houses, midway between which it stood, yet a spacious and noble mansion, with a richly decorated river-front, lofty windows with sculptured pediments, floriated cornice, and two side towers topped with leaded cupolas, the whole edifice gilded by the low sun, and very beautiful to look upon, the windows gleaming as if there were a thousand candles burning within, a light that gave a false idea of life and festivity, since that brilliant illumination was only a reflected glory.
But this anger could not last so long as to be replaced in time by reason. Mazarin, every morning, on opening his closet door, found the figure of Colbert like a sentinel behind the bench, and this disagreeable figure never failed to ask him humbly, but with tenacity, for the queen-mother's letter. Mazarin could hold out no longer, and was obliged to give it up.
"I was right," mused D'Artagnan; "there is, indeed, something strangely serious stirring." "We must hasten the explosion," breathed the coming cardinal, "for D'Artagnan has discovered the existence of a plot." It will not be forgotten how Comte de Guiche left the queen-mother's apartments on the day when Louis XIV. presented La Valliere with the beautiful bracelets he had won in the lottery.
Before entering the council-chamber, he stopped at a small oratory connected with the chapel, said his prayer, and as he passed the door of the queen-mother's apartments, signified his desire to pay his respects and have a few words with her. Catherine was indisposed, and could not receive him. Some vexation, it is said, appeared in Guise's face, but he said not a word.
Message from the Duc d'Anjou, Afterwards Henri III., to King Charles His Brother and the Queen-mother. Her Fondness for Her Children. Their Interview. Anjou's Eloquent Harangue. The Queen-mother's Character. Discourse of the Duc d'Anjou with Marguerite. She Discovers Her Own Importance. Engages to Serve Her Brother Anjou. Is in High Favour with the Queenmother.
The soldiers used to say that he was more afraid of being sun-burnt and of the blackness of the powder than of the musket-balls; and it was very true. He was very fond of building. Before he had the Palais Royal completed, and particularly the grand apartment, the place was, in my opinion, perfectly horrible, although in the Queen-mother's time it had been very much admired.
The courtiers were certain on this occasion of seeing Catherine, for her maids of honor, dressed like the rest of the court ladies, in black, came up the staircase from the queen-mother's apartment, and took their places, marshalled by the Comtesse de Fiesque, on the side toward the council-hall and opposite to the maids of honor of the young queen, led by the Duchesse de Guise, who occupied the other side of the fireplace on the side of the royal bedroom.
If Le Laboureur and other sensible writers had not already proved that La Mole and Coconnas, arrested fifty nights after the day on which our present history begins, and beheaded the following April, even, we say, if it had not been made historically clear that these men were the victims of the queen-mother's policy, the part which Cosmo Ruggiero took in this affair would go far to show that she secretly directed their enterprise.
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