Part 74 (1/2)

”Come, no useless words,” interrupted Pelisson ”Next to neur, to horse! to horse!”

”What, leave us!” at once cried both the wo yourself, you save us all To horse!”

”But he cannot hold himself on Look at him”

”Oh! if he takes tiht,” neur!” cried Gourville, rushi+ng up the stairs, four steps at once ”Monseigneur!”

”Well! what?”

”I escorted, as you desired, the king's courier with the money”

”Yes”

”Well! when I arrived at the Palais Royal, I saw--”

”Take breath, ”

”What did you see?” cried the i on horseback,” said Gourville

”There, then!” cried every voice at once; ”there, then! is there an instant to be lost?”

Mada for her horses; Mada her in her ar: ”Mada, do not manifest alares And, in thefriends were able to throw into it of gold and silver--the last offering, the pious al by soe Gourville took the reins, and mounted the box Pelisson supported Madame Fouquet, who had fainted Madath, and ell paid for it; she received Fouquet's last kiss Pelisson easily explained this precipitate departure by saying that an order fro had summoned the minister to Nantes

Chapter xxxVI In M Colbert's Carriage

As Gourville had seen, the king'stheir captain The latter, who did not like to be confined in his proceedings, left his brigade under the orders of a lieutenant, and set off on post horses, recoence However rapidly they ht travel, they could not arrive before hi the Rue des Petits-Cha which afforded hiht and conjecture He saw M

Colbert coe, which was stationed before the door In this carriage D'Artagnan perceived the hoods of to rather curious, he wished to know the nalimpse at theed his horse so near the carriage, that he drove hi containing and contained The terrified wonized a young woor and _aplomb_ that half a century bestows The hoods were thrown back: one of the women was Madanan's eyes were quicker than those of the ladies; he had seen and known thehed at their fright, pressing each other's hands,--

”Hunan, ”the old duchesse is no more inaccessible to friendshi+p than for her court to the es you nothing good!”

He rode on M Colbert got into his carriage and the distinguished trio coe toward the wood of Vincennes

Madame de Chevreuse set down Madame Vanel at her husband's house, and, left alone with M Colbert, chatted upon affairs whilst continuing her ride She had an inexhaustible fund of conversation, that dear duchesse, and as she always talked for the ill of others, though ever with a view to her own good, her conversation amused her interlocutor, and did not fail to leave a favorable inorant of the fact, how great a minister he was, and how Fouquet would soon become a cipher She promised to rally around him, when he should becodom, and questioned him as to the preponderance it would be proper to allow La Valliere She praised him, she blamed him, she bewildered him She showed him the secret of sobusiness with the devil She proved to him that she held in her hand the Colbert of to-day, as she had held the Fouquet of yesterday; and as he asked her very simply the reason of her hatred for the surintendant: ”Why do you yourself hate him?” said she

”Madame, in politics,” replied he, ”the differences of syste about dissentions between men M Fouquet always appeared to me to practice a syste”

She interrupted him--”I will say nois about to take to Nantes will give a good account of hione by--and for you also”

Colbert made no reply ”On his return fro, who is only anxious for a pretext, will find that the States have not behaved well--that they have made too few sacrifices The States will say that the imposts are too heavy, and that the surintendant has ruined the will lay all the blame on M