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All these details which we here lay bare for the edification of the reader, were so covered by the general uproar, that they were lost in it before reaching the reserved platforms; moreover, they would have moved the cardinal but little, so much a part of the customs were the liberties of that day Moreover, he had another cause for solicitude, and his mien as wholly preoccupied with it, which entered the estrade the same time as himself; this was the embassy from Flanders

Not that he was a profound politician, nor was he borrowing trouble about the possible consequences of the oyne to his cousin Charles, Dauphin de Vienne; nor as to how long the good understanding which had been patched up between the Duke of Austria and the King of France would last; nor how the King of England would take this disdain of his daughter All that troubled hi to the wine of the royal vintage of Chaillot, without a suspicion that several flasks of that same wine (somewhat revised and corrected, it is true, by Doctor Coictier), cordially offered to Edward IV by Louis XI, would, so, rid Louis XI of Edward IV "The ht the cardinal none of these cares, but it troubled him in another direction It was, in fact, somewhat hard, and we have already hinted at it on the second page of this book,--for hied to feast and receive cordially no one knohat bourgeois;--for him, a cardinal, to receive aldermen;--for him, a Frenchman, and a jolly companion, to receive Flemish beer-drinkers,--and that in public! This was, certainly, one of the ood pleasure of the king

So he turned toward the door, and with the best grace in the world (so well had he trained himself to it), when the usher announced, in a sonorous voice, "Messieurs the Envoys of Monsieur the Duke of Austria" It is useless to add that the whole hall did the saravity which made a contrast in the midst of the frisky ecclesiastical escort of Charles de Bourbon, the eight and forty a at their head the reverend Father in God, Jehan, Abbot of Saint-Bertin, Chancellor of the Golden Fleece, and Jacques de Goy, Sieur Dauby, Grand Bailiff of Ghent A deep silence settled over the assehter at the preposterous nanations which each of these personages transravity to the usher, who then tossed names and titles pell-mell and mutilated to the crowd below There were Master Loys Roelof, alderman of the city of Louvain; Messire Clays d'Etuelde, alderman of Brussels; Messire Paul de Baeust, Sieur de Voiroe de la Moere, first alderman of the kuere of the city of Ghent; Master Gheldolf van der Hage, first alderman of the ~parchous~ of the said town; and the Sieur de Bierbecque, and Jehan Pinnock, and Jehan Dyoorave, formal, dressed out in velvet and dareat tufts of Cyprus gold thread; good Flemish heads, after all, severe and worthy faces, of the farave froes all of whom bore, written on their brows, that Maxi implicitly," as the manifest ran, "in their sense, valor, experience, loyalty, and good wisdom"