“Speak, then.”
“Monseigneur, I come on the part of a great prince.”
“From the king?”
“No; M. le Duc de Guise.”
“Ah! that is quite a different thing. Approach, and speak low.”
CHAPTER LXXXI.
HOW M. LE DUC D’ANJOU SIGNED, AND AFTER HAVING SIGNED, SPOKE.
There was a moment’s silence. Then the duke said: “Well, M. le Comte, what have you to say to me from the Duc de Guise?”
“Much, monseigneur.”