"
"How?" I cried. "He has heard already?"
"He has, indeed; and should he learn that your flesh still walks the earth,
methinks it would go worse with you than it went even with Eug?ne de
Canaples."
In answer to the questions with which I excitedly plied him, I drew from
him the story of how Eug?ne had arrived the day before in Paris, and gone
straight to the Palais Royal. M. de Montr?sor had been on guard in the
ante-chamber, and in virtue of an excitement noticeable in Canaples's
bearing, coupled with the ill-odour wherein already he was held by Mazarin,
the lieutenant's presence had been commanded in the Cardinal's closet
during the interview--for his Eminence was never like to acquire fame for
valour.
In his exultation at what had chanced, and at the manner in which Mazarin's
Ch?teau en Espagne had been dispelled, Canaples used little caution, or
even discretion, in what he said. In fact, from what Montr?sor told me, I
gathered that the fool's eagerness to be the first to bear the tidings to
Mazarin sprang from a rash desire to gloat over the Cardinal's
discomfiture.
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