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so alarmed Parry; and whilst the wholehousehold was screaming, singing, and preparing to installthe travelers who had been preceded by their lackeys, heglided out by the principal entrance into the street, wherethe old man, who had gone to the window, lost sight of himin a moment.CHAPTER 8What his Majesty King Louis XIV. was at the Age of Twenty-TwoIt has been seen, by the account we have endeavored to giveof it, that the entree of King Louis XIV. into the city ofBlois had been noisy and brilliant his young majesty hadtherefore appeared perfectly satisfied with it.On arriving beneath the porch of the Castle of the States,the king met, surrounded by his guards and gentlemen, withS. A. R. the duke, Gaston of Orleans, whose physiognomy,naturally rather majestic, had borrowed on this solemnoccasion a fresh luster and a fresh dignity. On her part,Madame, dressed in her robes of ceremony, awaited, in theinterior balcony, the entrance of her nephew. All thewindows of the old castle, so deserted and dismal onordinary days, were resplendent with ladies and lights.It was then to the sound of drums, trumpets, and vivats,that the young king crossed the threshold of that castle inwhich, seventy-two years before, Henry III. had called inthe aid of assassination and treachery to keep upon his headand in his house a crown which was already slipping from hisbrow, to fall into another family.All eyes, after having admired the young king, so handsomeand so agreeable, sought for that other king of France, muchotherwise king than the former, and so old, so pale, sobent, that people called him the Cardinal Mazarin.Louis was at this time endowed with all the natural giftswhich make the perfect gentleman; his eye was brilliant,mild, and of a clear azure blue. But the most skillfulphysiognomists, those divers into the soul, on fixing theirlooks upon it, if it had been possible for a subject tosustain the glance of the king, -- the most skillfulphysiognomists, we say, would never have been able to fathomthe depths of that abyss of mildness. It was with the eyesof the king as with the immense depths of the azure heavens,or with those more terrific, and almost as sublime, whichthe Mediterranean reveals under the keels of its ships in aclear summer day, a gigantic mirror in which heaven delightsto reflect sometimes its stars, sometimes its storms.The king was short of stature -- he was scarcely five feettwo inches: but his youth made up for this defect, set offlikewise by great nobleness in all his movements, and byconsiderable address in all bodily exercises.Certes, he was already quite a king, and it was a greatthing to be a king in that period of traditional devotednessand respect; but as, up to that time, he had been but seldomand always poorly shown to the people, as they to whom hewas shown saw him by the side of his mother, a tall woman,and monsieur le cardinal, a man of commanding presence, manyfound him so little of a king as to say, --"Why, the king is not so tall as monsieur le cardinal!"Whatever may be thought of these physical observations,which were principally made in the capital, the young kingwas welcomed as a god by the inhabitants of Blois, andalmost like a king by his uncle and aunt, Monsieur andMadame, the inhabitants of the castle.It must, however, be allowed, that when he saw, in the hallof reception, chairs of equal height placed for himself, hismother, the cardinal, and his uncle and aunt, a dispositionartfully concealed by the semicircular form of the assembly,Louis XIV. became red with anger, and looked around him toascertain by the countenances of those that were present, ifthis humiliation had been prepared for him. But as he sawnothing upon the impassible visage of the cardinal, nothingon that of his mother, nothing on those of the assembly, heresigned himself, and sat down, taking care to be seatedbefore anybody else.The gentlemen and ladies were presented to their majestiesand monsieur le cardinal.The king remarked that his mother and he scarcely knew thenames of any of the persons who were presented to them;whilst the cardinal, on the contrary never failed, with anadmirable memory and presence of mind, to talk to every oneabout his estates, his ancestors, or his children,
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