Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-03-19

swer them, welli He shall still have
the fifty crowns l promised him. If
not-I shall know how to deal with
him."
AT that, and the reversal OF all my
hopes, 1 fell into my old rage again,
and even his servants locked oddly at
him, until n sharp word recalled them
to their duty; on which they hustled
me off with little ceremony, and the less
for that which they had before showed
me. While the bishop, carrying the
dog IN his arms, mounted his coach
and went by the Rue st. Martin and St.
Antoine, they hurried me by short cuts
md byways to the Palais Royal, which
we reached as his running footmen
came in sight. The approach to the
gate was blocked by great crowd Of
people, and for a moment was fond
enough to imagine that they had to do
with my nffair-and ] shrank back.
But the steward with q thrust of his
knee against my hip, which showed
urged me forward, and from what
passed round me us we pushed through
the press, l gathered that score of
captured colors had arrived within the
l,our from Flanders, and were being
presented to the queen.
The courtyard confirmed this, for II.
the open part of it, and much pressed on
by the curious who thronged the ar
Cades, we found troop of horse,
4, Il Il 90,
Flanders road. The officers who bore
the trophies we overlook on the stairs
near The door Of the antc-chamber.
burning with rage, as was, and strung
to the last pitch of excitement, yet
remember that / thought it an odd
time TO push in with dog; but mon
seigneur did not seem to see this.
Whether he took a certain pleasure in
belittlipg the war Iarty, to whom he
was opposed, or merely knew his ground
well, he went on, thrusting the mill
taires aside with little ceremony; and
as everyone was us quick to give place
to him rs he was TO advance, in n mo-
rnent we were in the ante-chamber
l had never been admitted before
and from the doorway, within which
paused in Bonnivct's keeping, viewed
the scene with an interest that for the
time overcame my sense OF injustice
The long room hummed with talk; @
crowd of chur chmen and pages, with Z
sprinklng of the lesser nobility, many
lawyers and some soldiers filed it from
end to end. IN one corner were grour
of tradesmen, bearing plate for thu
queens inspection; in another stood {
knot of suitors with petitions; whilt
everywhere men whose eager faces ant
cXpectant eyes were their best peti
tons, watched the farther door will
quivering lips and signs whenever II
opened, and emitted merely council
or or marquis. Several times
masked lady fitted through the crowd
with bow here and the honor OF hci
taper fingers there. The windows were
open, and the murmur of the throns
without, mlngling with the stir Of tall
within, seemed to fill up the light an
color of the room.
Monseigneur, with his chaplain an'
pages 1t his shoulder, making in hi
stately way for the farther door, me
NJ. de Chateauneuf, and paused tospeals
When ne escaped from him dozen eli
cnts, whose obsequious bows rendered
evasion impossible, still delayed him
md l hal grown cold, and hot again
and he was still on his progress whcr
the inner door opened, half dozer
voices cried: "The queen" end al
usher with q silver wand passed dowI
the room anG ranked the company OF
either side-not without some strug
Cling, and once a fierce oath, an'
twice q smothercd cutlery.