The Real Louis the Fifteenthe ...: With 34... Portraits Including 12 Photogravure Plates
The Real Louis the Fifteenthe ...: With 34... Portraits Including 12 Photogravure Plates
Andrew Haggard
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Pompadour merely assumed an attitude of disiraiU reverie, staring in a kind of tragic trance as though not of this world, and allowing the poor Abb£ to excite himself as much as he liked. Not in the least moved by his agitation, she repUed, *' I am the Minister of Limbo, uncertain, vague, and floating. I belong to the world of dreams." The Abb6 was reduced to despair, for what could he, poor man ! do as the Minister who was to save France when practically his only colleague in the Ministry proc...laimed herself to be floating in a world of dreams ? That did not seem to him as likely to save anybody, not even themselves. Bemis very much wished to save himself — save his head. He ac^ cordingly applied for a Cardinal's hat — ^he said, " as an umbrella." He well knew, from the history of the past in both France and Spain, that, ever since the days of Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, other abb^ who had been Ministers had ardently sought that umbrella. Had not Ret2, Dubois, and Alberoni all said, '* They don*t hang Cardinals !
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