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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. Chicot's Chess, Qulus' Cup And Ball, And Schom- Berg's Blow-gun. We may safely say that Chicot, notwithstanding his apparent coldness, was returning to the Louvre in a perfectly joyful state of mind. He enjoyed the threefold satisfaction of having rendered a service to a brave man like Bussy, of having been engaged in an intrigue, and of having rendered possible for the king the political stroke which circumstances required. Indeed, what with Bossy's head, and particularly his heart, and the spirit of organization of MM. de Guise, a stormy day was likely to rise on the good city of Paris. All that the king had feared, all that Chicot had foreseen, came to pass, as might have been expected. M. de Guise, after having received in the morning the principal Leaguers, who had come from all sides to bring him the registers covered with signatures which we have seen in the squares, at the doors of the principal inns, and even on the altars of the churches; M. de Guise, after having promised a chief to the League, and made them all swear to recognize the chief whom the king would appoint; after having conferred with the cardinal and M. de May- enne, ? went out to visit M. le Due d'Anjou, whom he had lost sight of the night before at about ten o'clock. Chicot had anticipated this visit, so on leaving Bussy he went at once to lounge in the neighborhood of the Hotel d'Alencon, situated at the corner of the Hue Hautefeuille and the Rue Saint-Andre. Vol. n.?5 He had been there about a quarter of an hour when he saw the one he expected come down the Rue de la Huchette. Chicot hid himself at the corner of the Rue du Cimetiere, and the Due de Guise entered the Mtel without having perceived him. The duke found the prince's valet rather uneasy about his master's a...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217920483 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217920489 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $21.42 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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