I return thither no more unless I am dragged.

I regret only two things that I have left behind at Paris--mass and my wife.

As for mass, I will try to do without it; but as for my wife, I cannot; I mean to see her again." He disavowed the appearances of Catholicism he had assumed, again made open profession of Protestantism by holding at the baptismal font, in the conventicle, the daughter of a physician amongst his friends.

Then he reached Bearn, declaring that he meant to remain there independent and free.

A few days before his departure he had written to one of his Bearnese friends, "The court is the strangest you ever saw.