Chicot the Jester

knew the king was not there, as his brother had asked to see him, but he knew that there was next to it a little room which was occupied in turn by all the king's favorites, and which he now ex

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?" cried St. Luc, angrily; "

, let me thank you for th

not bear to see a brave gentleman a

ink I repaid with interest to Schomberg and D'Epernon. As for Quelus,

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I come for something

de

a pri

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n to render you a s

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all I sa

like Cicero, who wrote on it; and of virtue like Socrates, who practised it. It is in vain I tell

ll I can d

Dieu! I

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this, and tol

at did

ontinued he, glancing towards the window, "she will

Signor Astolfo, and let me moun

be to take the griffin to y

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, he

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. Then you would b

goes on much longer, I be

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hundred t

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c, recognizing her

ll I send

, I owe you an et

nnot be heard, but

Indeed, M. de Nancey was beginning to wonder what was

Nancey, "there is the king

affecting inquietude; "can it be wit

rd went off in the dir

ged well?" said

t is

go to them. You profit by the time to place in sa

declared I was ill a

off to the gallery, where the king, red with fury, swore to the duke, who was p

hat D'Epernon, Schomberg and Quelus were wa

old yo

m with my

ss! The night w

their

spoke

y took me for Bussy

ou

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were you d

that matt

now; I am cu

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he king. Besides, as I sai

he

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en? No, no, he is brav

des, he has wounded Schomberg in the thigh, D

not know; I comp

example of

in his person and in my own, will

dressed in pale-green

, "receive my h

ere he is,"

s, was doing me the ho

, in spite of what they told me

the complexion, so mine ou

ounded you, complain, an

n of nothi

ed. "What did you say

y had received a

true,

of the blood wou

ou do not

ff my right-hand, and prevent my revenging myse

," murmur

r. Order an inquiry, name judges, and let it be pro

. I wish these enemies to make peace, and I am sorry that Schomberg and D'Epernon are kept at home by their wo

it was

id Quelus, "his h

MM. Bussy and Quelus make

elus, "what does

to embrace here, befo

imitating a pantaloon, "wil

ng Quelus, Bussy threw his arms round

s us to nothing,"

ered Bussy, "we

and Bussy, making a piroue