“Will it not do during the procession? we shall walk side by side.”
“Monseigneur must excuse me, but what I wished to ask is, that I need not accompany you.”
“Why so?”
“Monseigneur, to-morrow is a great day, and I would wish to retire to-day to my little house at Vincennes.”
“Then you do not join the procession with the king and court?”
“No, monseigneur, if you will excuse me.”
“Will you not rejoin me at St. Geneviève?”
“Monseigneur, I wish to have the whole day to myself.”
“But if anything should occur when I have need of my friends?”
“As monseigneur would only want me to draw my sword against my king, it is a double reason for excusing myself,” replied Bussy; “my sword is engaged against M. d’Epernon.”