Alfred de Vigny

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Cinq Mars, v1

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...de Gondi,1 who prowled near me, and seemed to have something hidden under his sleeve; it was he that made me get into the coach.\" \"Apropos of the abbe\", my Lord, the queen insists upon making him coadjutor.\" \"She's mad! he will ruin her if she connects herself with him; he's a musketeer in canonicals, the Devil in a cassock. Read his 'Histoirc de Fiesque;' you may see himself in it. He will be nothing while I live.\" \"How is it that with a judgment like yours you bring another ambitious man of his age to court?\" \"It is an entirely different matter. This young CinqMars, my friend, will be a puppet, a mere puppet. He will think of nothing but his ruff and his shoulderknots; his handsome figure assures me of this. I know that he is gentle and infirm of purpose; it was for this reason I preferred him to his elder brother. He will do all we wish.\" \"Ah, my Lord,\" said the monk, with an expression of doubt, \"I never place much reliance on people whose exterior is so calm; the flame within is often all the more dangerous. Recollect the Mare'chal d'Effiat, his father.\" 1 Afterwards the Cardinal de Retz. \"But I tell you he is a boy, and I shall bring him up; while Gondi is already an accomplished conspirator, an ambitious knave who sticks at nothing. He has dared to dispute Madame de la Meilleraie with me. Can you conceive it? He dispute with me! A petty priestling, who has no other merit than a little lively tittle-tattle and a cavalier air. Fortunately, the husband himself took care to get rid of him.\" Father Joseph, who listened with equal impatience to his master when he spoke of his bonnes fortunes and when he talked of his verses, made, however, a grimace which he meant to be very sl...

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