de Guiche, M.de Manicamp, and the rest of them ?" "They all belong to your highness's household." "Yes, yes, you are right," said the prince, as he returned to his own apartments, full of thought.

He threw himself into the largest of his arm-chairs, without looking at himself in the glass.

"Where can the chevalier be ?" said he.

One of the prince's attendants happened to be near him, overheard his remark, and replied,-- "No one knows, your highness." "Still the same answer.

The first one who answers me again, 'I do not know,' I will discharge." Every one at this remark hurried out of his apartments, in the same manner as the others had fled from Madame's apartments.