Imprisonment, perhaps death, will finish what exiles, battles, and privations have commenced." Mazarin's brow became clouded.
"It is certain," said Louis XIV., "that his majesty Charles II., has quitted the Hague ?" "Quite certain, your majesty," replied the young man; "my father has received a letter containing all the details; it is even known that the king has landed at Dover; some fishermen saw him entering the port; the rest is still a mystery." "I should like to know the rest," said Philip, impetuously.

"You know,--you, my brother." Louis XIV.

colored again.

That was the third time within an hour.

"Ask my lord cardinal," replied he, in a tone which made Mazarin, Anne of Austria, and everybody else open their eyes.
"That means, my son," said Anne of Austria, laughing, "that the king does not like affairs of state to be talked of out of the council." Philip received the reprimand with good grace, and bowed, first smiling at his brother, and then at his mother.