The king was chatting with his favorite St.
Simon, and tapping with his finger-tips on the window-pane.

"What do you think of all this ?" he asked.

"Sir," was the reply, "I seem to be in another world, but at any rate you are master." "Yes, I am," answered the king, "and I will make it felt too." He sent for Cardinal La Vallette, son of the Duke of Epernon, but devoted to Richelieu.

"The cardinal has a good master," he said: "go and make my compliments to him, and tell him to come to me without delay." [Memoires de Bassompierre, t.iii.

p.