Belle Rose: A Romance of the Cloak and Sword — page 319: what you’re looking at

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THE CHEVALIER D’ARRAINES. 30] of Monsieur de Pomereux, Monsieur de Louvois hastened to have him shown up. The count did not at first see the face of the minister, who was just then drinking from a large jugful of water. ‘‘Diable!’?’ he murmured, ‘‘he must be very angry to be so exceedingly thirsty.’”’ ‘Ah! ah! my handsome cousin, so you have returned, have you?’’ said the minister, throwing, when he had finished drinking, a keen and swift glance at the Comte de Pomereux. ‘‘Come! I was not deceived,’’ thought the count, who sustained unflinchingly the threatening glance of the min- ister. Aloud he said: | ‘‘In faith, yes, monseigneur; I experienced such a vio- lent annoyance over not having seen you recently. that my first visit at Paris has been to see you.’”’ ‘It is an instance of great zeal for which I thank you, my dear count.”’ ‘‘Not at all! no one hasa whole family of cousins like yourself, and when perchance one possesses one, one owes everything to him.”’ ‘*‘T have always counted upon your devotion; it appears even that this devotion has passed beyond my expecta- tion.’’ ‘*You flatter me.”’ **Not in the least; Iam informed that in the neighbor- hood of d’Ennery, you comported yourself like a chevalier of the age of chivalry. You have eclipsed the glory of Amidas, and the illustrious Galaor himself is only a coward beside you.”’ ‘‘Ah! monseigneur! you put too much faith in the narra- tive of Monsieur de Charny.”’ “It is true; it is from him I have learned of your exploits.”’ **Monsieur de Charny is an excellent friend! I was quite sure that he would act as he has done.’’ ‘‘Oh! he has concealed nothing from me. Why was I not there to applaud your prowess?”’ ‘*Your approbation had been my sweetest reward, mon- seigneur.’”’ The game pleased Monsieur de Louvois, who amused himself with Monsieur de Pomereux as a cat does with a mouse; only the mouse had a self-possession which aston- ished him a little. **‘My admiration has begun,’’ continued the minister, “at the furious combat which you sustained against (E(0) AA IC oyeye) S (E(0) =}