He presumes to make presents to her, and she ventures to accept them.

Yesterday she was talking about _sauchets a la violette_; well, our French perfumers, you know very well, madame, for you have over and over again asked for it without success--our French perfumers, I say, have never been able to procure this scent.

The duke, however, wore about him a _sachet a la violette_, and I am sure that the one my wife has came from him." "Indeed, monsieur," said Anne of Austria, "you build your pyramids on needle points; be careful.

What harm, I ask you, can there be in a man giving to his countrywoman a recipe for a new essence?
These strange ideas, I protest, painfully recall your father to me; he who so frequently and so unjustly made me suffer." "The Duke of Buckingham's father was probably more reserved and more respectful than his son," said Philip, thoughtlessly, not perceiving how deeply he had wounded his mother's feelings.

The queen turned pale, and pressed her clenched hands upon her bosom; but, recovering herself immediately, she said, "You came here with some intention or another, I suppose ?" "Certainly." "What was it ?" "I came, madame, intending to complain energetically, and to inform you that I will not submit to such behavior from the Duke of Buckingham." "What do you intend to do, then ?" "I shall complain to the king." "And what do you expect the king to reply ?" "Very well, then," said Monsieur, with an expression of stern determination on his countenance, which offered a singular contrast to its usual gentleness.