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Pausing for a moment, the king admiringly contemplated the sparkling gems, and then, threading his way through the throng of ladies, advanced to Mademoiselle de la Vallière, who stood a little apart, and placed them in her hands. Henrietta turned pale, and bit her lip with vexation. The queen, Maria Theresa, looked on with a marble smile, which revealed nothing of her feelings.
"Montalais?" said the chevalier, "oh, I know her; she is a good sort of girl, whom we shall find amusing enough. La Valliere is a charming girl, slightly lame." "Ah! bah!" said De Wardes. "Do not be absurd, De Wardes, there are some very characteristic and ingenious Latin axioms about lame ladies."
The king walked behind La Valliere, and fixed his eyes lingeringly and passionately upon that neck as white as snow, upon which her long fair ringlets fell in heavy masses.
Without falsehood or subterfuge, Louise, am I to believe what Mademoiselle de Montalais stated? Louise, did you come to Paris because I was no longer at Blois?" La Valliere blushed and concealed her face in her hands. "Yes, it was so, then!" exclaimed Raoul, delightedly; "that was, then, your reason for coming here. I love you as I never yet loved you.
"Mademoiselle de la Valliere?" "Yes." "Take care, gentlemen," exclaimed De Guiche, anxious to put a stop to the chevalier's reply; "take care, Madame is listening to us." Raoul had thrust his hand up to the wrist into his justaucorps in great agitation. But the very malignity which he saw was excited against these poor girls made him take a serious resolution.
To try and resuscitate attachments of this sort is as if one should try to open the grave and give life to the dead. God alone can work miracles such as these. The Marquis de Bragelonne, Officer of the Guards. His Baleful Love. His Journey. His Death. The Marquis de Bragelonne was born for Mademoiselle de la Valliere.
Louis XIV. made her a duchess; but all she cared about was to see him and please him. When Madame de Montespan began to supplant her in the king's favor, the grief of Madame de La Valliere was so great that she thought she should die of it. Then she turned to God, in penitence and despair. Twice she sought refuge in a convent at Chaillot.
Fouquet in danger. Intervention of Louise. M. Fouquet imprisoned. Continued gayety at court. Important dispatches. The king's orders. Relationship of the French and Spanish courts. The apology of Philip IV. Conduct of M. Créqui. The Pope humbled. Remorse of de la Vallière. Illness of Anne of Austria. Trials of Mademoiselle de la Vallière. Disappointment. Flight of Mademoiselle de la Vallière.
You don't look after yourself, but let yourself be neglected; you don't push yourself forward enough, nor stand upon your dignity as you ought to do. "The little lame woman had hardly been brought to bed of Mademoiselle de Blois, when she was made Duchesse de Vaujours and de la Valliere. "Gabrielle d'Estrees, directly she appeared, was proclaimed Duchesse de Beaufort.
After supper he sent for a copy, by three servants of his bed-chamber, each of whom brought in seven volumes, with a good deal of difficulty. "They saw, in the article on gunpowder, that the Duke of La Valliere was right.
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