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Coppenole proudly saluted his eeois feared by Louis XI Then, while Guillaue and malicious man," as Philippe de Comines puts it, watched theht his place, the cardinal quite abashed and troubled, Coppenole tranquil and haughty, and thinking, no doubt, that his title of hosier was as good as any other, after all, and that Marie of Burgundy,in e, would have been less afraid of the cardinal than of the hosier; for it is not a cardinal ould have stirred up a revolt ahter of Charles the Bold; it is not a cardinal who could have fortified the populace with a word against her tears and prayers, when the Maid of Flanders came to supplicate her people in their behalf, even at the very foot of the scaffold; while the hosier had only to raise his leather elbow, in order to cause to fall your two heads, neurs, Guy d'Hyonet

Nevertheless, all was over for the poor cardinal, and he was obliged to quaff to the dregs the bitter cup of being in such bad cootten the ies of the cardinal's gallery ever since the beginning of the prologue The arrival of the illustrious guests had by no means caused him to relax his hold, and, while the prelates and aenuine Fles--he settled his on the architrave The insolence of this proceeding was extraordinary, yet no one noticed it at first, the attention of all being directed elsewhere He, on his side, perceived nothing that was going on in the hall; he wagged his head with the unconcern of a Neapolitan, repeating from time to time, amid the clamor, as from a mechanical habit, "Charity, please!" And, assuredly, he was, out of all those present, the only one who had not deigned to turn his head at the altercation between Coppenole and the usher Now, chance ordained that the master hosier of Ghent, hom the people were already in lively sympathy, and upon whom all eyes were riveted--should coallery, directly above the mendicant; and people were not a little a his inspection of the knave thus placed beneath his eyes, bestow a friendly tap on that ragged shoulder The beggar turned round; there was surprise, recognition, a lighting up of the two countenances, and so forth; then, without paying the slightest heed in the world to the spectators, the hosier and the wretched being began to converse in a low tone, holding each other's hands, in the s of Clopin Trouillefou, spread out upon the cloth of gold of the dais, produced the effect of a caterpillar on an orange