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That very day I set out For since the King was opposed to the affair, and knowing the drastic measures by which he ont to enforce what he desired, I realized that did I linger he

I travelled in a coach, attended by two lacqueys and a score of men-at-arms in my own livery, all commanded by Ganymede My intendant hi necessaries We were a fine and ale as we passed down the rue de l'Enfer and quitted Paris by the Orleans gate, taking the road south So fine a cortege, indeed, that it enteredence to be made, and we struck east and into Touraine At Pont-le-Duc, near Tours, I had a cousin in the Vicomte d'Amaral, and at his chateau I arrived on the third day after quitting Paris

Since that was the last place where they would seek me, if to seek uest for fifteen days And whilst I was there we had news of trouble in the South and of a rising in Languedoc under the Duc de Montmorency Thus was it that when I cauedoc was ht ardently to keep me with him until we should learn that peace and order were restored in the province But I held the trouble lightly, and insisted upon going

Resolutely, then, if by slow stages, we pursued our journey, and cae de Navarre, intending to push on to Lavedan upon the morrow My father had been on more than friendly terms with the Vicomte de Lavedan, and upon this I built my hopes of a cordial welcome and an invitation to delay for a few days the journey to Toulouse, upon which I should represent myself as bound

Thus, then, stood my plans And they remained unaltered for all that upon the morrow there ild rus of a battle fought the day before at Castelnaudary, of the defeat of Monsieur's partisans, of the utter rout of Gonzalo de Cordova's Spanish tatterdemalions, and of the capture of Montmorency, as sorely wounded--some said with twenty and some with thirty wounds--and little like to live Sorrow and discontent stalked abroad in Languedoc that day, for they believed that it was against the Cardinal, who sought to strip thees, that Gaston d'Orleans had set up his standard