Besides, I did not think that your majesty would attach any very great importance to what you heard, knowing how much your attention was taken up by Mademoiselle de la Valliere; and then, Mademoiselle de Tonnay-Charente left me precipitately, to return to Mademoiselle de la Valliere." "Let us hope, then, that I shall be as fortunate as yourself.

Come, Saint-Aignan." "Your majesty is ambitions, I perceive, and does not wish to allow any conquest to escape you.

Well, I assure you that I will conscientiously set about my inquiries; and, moreover, from one or the other of those Three Graces we shall learn the names of the rest, and by the names their secrets." "I, too," said the king, "only require to hear her voice to know it again.

Come, let us say no more about it, but show me where poor La Valliere is." "Well," thought Saint-Aignan, "the king's regard is beginning to display itself, and for that girl too.

It is extraordinary; I should never have believed it." And with this thought passing through his mind, he showed the king the room to which La Valliere had been carried; the king entered, followed by Saint-Aignan.