Those portraits to which some would attach importance--they are of the Duchess de Guiche.

Admitted?
Good! If you yourself--who have the reputation of being a man of wit--desired to secure the escape of a child and his nurse, would you content yourself with the mere precaution of concealing the child's identity?
Would you not go farther and provide the nurse with a subterfuge, a blind, something for the woman to produce and say, 'This is not the little Dauphin.

This is so-and-so.

See, here is the portrait of his mother ?' What so effective, I ask you?
What so likely to be believed as a scandal directed against the hated aristocrats?
Can you advance anything against that theory ?" "No, Monsieur," replied Turner.
"But Monsieur de Bourbon knows of these doubts," went on the Marquis.
"They have even touched his own mind, I know that.

But he has continued to fight undaunted.