The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-08-23

was natural to the favorite servants of
the king.
HE becomes harder and harder to
amuse" said Racine. Il am to be at
Nine. de Aaintenons room at 3 to
see whether page or two of the Phe-
Dire may not work a change. Madame
Is wonderful woman. She has brains,
the has heart, she has tact-she is ad-
mirable."
and yet she has one gift too many
age"
Pooh! What matter her years when
she can carry them like thirty? What
an eye, what an arm! And, besides,
my friends. he is not himself boy
any longer"
90 VERY true, but young man con-
suits his eye and an older man his ear.
Over forty, it Is the clever tongue
which wins: under it, the pretty face"
"Ah, you rascal! Then you have
made up your mind that FIVE and forty
years with tact will hold the fed
against nine and thirty with beaatv,
We'll, when your lady has won she will
doubtless remember who were the first
to pay court to her"
But think you are wrong, Racine"
"Well, what them
"Then it may be little serious for
you"
"And whyy'
1.-THE Marquise de Montespan has a
memory"
'fHer' influence may soon be nothing
more Maintenon is the cleverest wo-
man in France"
aPshaw,, Racine. you know our dear
master well, or you should, for you seem
to have been at his elbow since the
days of the Fronde. Is he a man,
think you,' to be amused forever by
sermons? No, no: it will be the Mon
tespan or, if not she, some younger
beauty"
- 'AIy dear Boileau, l say again that
her sun is setting. Have you not
heard the news? Her brother, NJ. de
'vivonne, has been refused the entree."n
"From whom had you it?"
"From De Catinat, the captain of the
guard. He had his orders to bar the
way to him." 8 "t
"Ha. then the king does indeed mean
mischief. That is why his brow is so
cloudy this morning then. By my
faith, if the marquise has the spirit
with which folk credit her, he may find
that it was easier to win her than to
slight her."
AYE, the Mortemarts are no easy
race to handle"
"Well, heaven send him a safe way
out of it. But who is this gentleman?
His face is somewhat grimmer than
those to which the court is accustomed.
Ha, the king catches sight of him. and
Louvois beckons to him to advance"
The stranger who had attracted Ra-
cine's attention was a tall, thin man,
with a high aquiline nose, stern. fierce
gray eyes, peeping out from under tuft-
ed brows. and cOuntenance so lined
and marked by age, care and stress of
weather that Ii stood out amid the
prim courtier faces which surrounded
it as an old hawk might in a cage of
birds of gay plumage.
Louis possessed in high degree the
royal faculty of recognition. 1T is
years since ! have seen him. hut / re
member lis face we'll" said he. turn
ing to his minister. at is the Conte
tie Fronteuac. is it not?"
Yes. sire" answered Louvois. at is
indeed Louis &c Buade, comte de From
tenac and formerly governor of Can
ada"
we are glad to see you once more at
our lever" said the monarch as the
old nob,eman stopped his head and
kissed the white hand which was ex-
tended to him. Il hope that the cold
of Canada has not chilled the warmth
Of your loyalty"
''Only death itself, sire, would be
cold enough for that"
"Then trust that it may remain to.
us for many lOrg years. We would'I
thank you for the care anil pains which
you have spent upon our province. and.
If We have recalled you 1T Is chiefiy!I
that we would fain hear from your
own lips how all things 60 there. And,
first, as the affairs Of God take preced-s
ence of those of France, how about
the missions 2" u
''They prosper, sire. There are Iro-s
quois at the Sault and the mountain,
Hurons at LOrette and AlgonQuins
along the whole river cotes from Tai
dousac in the east to Sault la Marie,
and even the great plains of the Da-
kotas, who have all taken the cross as
their token. Marquette has passed
down the river OF the west to preach
among the Illinois, and Jesuits have
carried the gospel even to the warriors