Part 79 (1/2)
”I must admit,” continued the queen, ”that it was not without trouble I rendered it to your eminence”
”Ah, peste! I believe that Oh! oh!”
”Good God! what is the !”
”Do you suffer much?”
”As much as one of the dah the floor
”So, then,” resu--” he stopped several seconds--”that the king is co here to offer me some small thanks?”
”I think so,” said queen Mazarin annihilated Colbert with his last look
At thatwas in the ante-chambers, which were filled with people This announcee to escape by the door of the ruelle Anne of Austria arose, and awaited her son, standing Louis XIV
appeared at the threshold of the door, with his eyes fixed upon the dying man, who did not even think it worth while to notice thatmore to expect An usher placed an armchair close to the bed Louis bowed to his mother, then to the cardinal, and sat down The queen took a seat in her turn
Then, as the king looked behind hin to the courtiers who filled up the doorway to go out, which they instantly did Silence fell upon the cha, and very timid in the presence of him who had been his master from his birth, still respected him much, particularly now, in the suprein the conversation, feeling that every word s of this world, but of the next As to the cardinal, at that ht--his donation It was not physical pain which gave hiubrious look; it was the expectation of the thanks that were about to issue fro's mouth, and cut off all hope of restitution
Mazarin was the first to break the silence ”Is your majesty come to make any stay at Vincennes?” said he
Louis racious favor,” continued Mazarin, ”granted to a dying man, and which will render death less painful to hi, ”I a man, but a sick man, susceptible of cure”
Mazarin replied by a movement of the head
”Your majesty is very kind; but I know more than you on that subject
The last visit, sire,” said he, ”the last visit”
”If it were so, monsieur le cardinal,” said Louis, ”I would couide to who”
Anne of Austria was a woman; she could not restrain her tears Louis showed hiuests, but from very different motives Here the silence returned The queen wiped her eyes, and the king resu, ”that I owed much to your e, for he felt the great moment had come ”And,” continued Louis, ”the principal object of my visit was to offer you very sincere thanks for the last evidence of friendshi+p you have kindly sent me”
The cheeks of the cardinal became sunken, his lips partially opened, and the h he had ever uttered was about to issue from his chest
”Sire,” said he, ”I shall have despoiledto me, which may be imputed to me as an error; but, at least, it shall not be said of ”
Anne of Austria's tears flowed afresh
”My dear Monsieur Mazarin,” said the king, in a ht have been expected from his youth, ”you have misunderstood me, apparently”