'Those who heard Sulkowski boast.'
'Boast! That is bad!' rejoined the King. 'I shall scold him for that!'
Guarini saw that the King was already tired of the subject, and he tried to find something to amuse him, certain that the seed would take root and grow.
At that moment a chamberlain entered again and announced that the Queen was waiting for the King to have some music.
'Let us go!' said Augustus III sighing.
Guarini bowed and they went. The lackeys preceded them with candelabras.
The Queen's apartments were furnished according to Josephine's taste. There was no luxury, but in the severity one could trace the majesty of the emperor's palace.
The pictures were all religious. Instead of bibelots there were plenty of relics and crosses. The court was composed of elderly ladies and so chosen that their beauty would not prove distracting to the King.
That day, John George Pisendel, the most famous violinist of those times, was going to give a concert in the court music hall. Besides him Pantaleon Heberstreit was going to play on an instrument invented by himself and called a clavicembolo. Buffardia and Quanz were to play the flute.
The Queen, already a little annoyed, walked to and fro waiting for her consort. When he entered she came up to him and tried to read his humour in his face and she understood that he was displeased. Music was the best remedy.