Part 44 (2/2)
”Does she believe me hostile to your prosperity, my dear Marquise?” I said at once to Madahtly confused, and answered: ”Mademoiselle de l'Enclos is not personally of that opinion; she had heard certain reiven her my most explicit assurance that, if you should ever cease to care for ratitude would be none the less yours,as I should live”
”You owe me those sentiht to count on theiven all , to see him now cool down, even in his courtesy The hours which he used to pass with ives to you, and it is i here, since all Paris is informed of it, and Mademoiselle de l'Enclos has discussed it with you”
”I owe everything that I a,” she answered o elsewhere, to you or solad if your countenance did not, at such a moment, expand like a sunflower; I should like you, at the risk of soth to moderate and restrain that vein of talk and conversation of which you have given yourself the supreenerosity to sho and again, less wit This sort of regime and abstinence would not destroy you off-hand, and the worst that could result to you from it would be to pass in his eyes for a woreat calaest!” the lady in waiting replied tooffence ”I have never been eccentric or singular with any one in the world, and you want est to s, and I will enter into all your vieith all my heart and without hesitation”
This reply shockedto be a simple and disinterested soul,” I said to her, ”and it was in this belief that I gave you my cordial affection Now I read your heart, and all your projects are revealed to reedy of respect and consideration, you are a's hood has awakened all your wild dreao that the soothsayer of the Marechale d'Albret had predicted for you a sceptre and a crown”
At these words, the governess n to lower ood faith, which it is iet: ”I confided to you at the time that puerility of society, just as the Marechale and the Marshal (without believing it) related it to all France But this prognostication need not alar like ours is incapable of such an extravagance, and if he were to determine on it, it would not have my countenance nor approval
”I do not think that thus far I have passed due lientleman of the cha without offending the eyes; but the lady in waiting will never be Queen, and I give you my permission to insult me publicly when I am”
Such was this conversation, to which I have not added a word We shall see soon how Madaht in owing her a grudge for this pro, hich it was her caprice to decoy
CHAPTER xxxVI
Birth of the Duc d'Anjou--The Present to the Mother--The Casket of Patience--Departure of the King for the Ar Turns a Deaf Ear--How That Concerns Madaer of Caricatures--The Administrative Thermometer--Actors Who Can neither Be Applauded nor Hissed--Relapse of the Prisoner--Scarron's Will--A Fine Subject for Engraving--Madame de Maintenon's Opinion upon the Jesuits--The Audience of the Green Salon--Portions from the Refectory--Madame de Maintenon's Presence of Mind--I Will Make You Schoolreatly pleased with her new position, in that she represented the person of the Queen, had already given birth to M le Duc de Bourgogne; she now brought into the world a second son, as at once entitled Duc d'Anjou The King, to thank her for this gift, made her a present of an oriental casket, which could only be opened by a secret spring, and that not before one had essayed it for half an hour
Madame la Dauphine found in it a superb set of pearls and four thousand new louis d'or As she had no generosity in her heart, she bestowed no bounties on her entourage The King this yearinto his carriage he came and passed half an hour or forty o and pass the ti
”At Petit-Bourg and at Bourbon,” I answered, ”unless you allow ned not to have heard o, refused the baton of a marshal of France, asks to accoe his ive him to understand that his part is played out with me”
”What business is it of mine,” I asked with vivacity, ”to teach M de Lauzun how to behave? Let Madae herself with these hoer”
These words troubled the King; he said to o to Bourbon untilday, and the same day I took my departure I went to spend a week at ht I was still in favour, received me with marks of attention and their accusto herself by -woman, came to present me with a kind of petition or prayer, which, I confess, surprised reatly, as I had never commissioned any one to practise severity in my name
A man, detained at the Bastille for the last twelve years, implored s, and to give orders which would strike off his chains and irons
”My intention,” he said, ”was not, madame, to offend or harm you Artists are somewhat feather-headed, and I was then only twenty” This petition was signed ”Hathelin, prisoner of State” I had e at once, and betook myself to the chateau of the Bastille, the Governor of which I knew
When I set foot in this formidable fortress, in spite of myself I experienced a thrill of terror
The attentions of public men are a thermometer, which, instead of our own notions, is very capable of letting us know the just degree of our favour The Governor of the Bastille, some months before, would have saluted me with his artillery; perhaps he still receivedany ardour into his politeness, or drawing too much upon hi these insults of meanness, and, by a contrivance of distraction, escape fro explained, the Governor found on his register that poor Hathelin, aged thirty-two to thirty-four years, was an engraver by profession The lieutenant-general of police had arrested hi on the subject of M le Marquis de Montespan and the King
I desired to see Hathelin, quite deters, hich I was going to occupy myself exclusively until I was successful The Governor, a man all formality and pride, told me that he had not the necessary authority for this coe without having tranquillisedI called upon the lieutenant-general of police, and, after having eloquently pleaded the cause of this forgotten young man, I discovered that there was no 'lettre de cachet' to his prejudice, and procured his liberation
He came to pay his respects and thanks to me, in my parlour at Saint Joseph, on the very day of his liberation He seereatly after his ave hihtly for that horrible Bastille At first he hesitated to take them