Did she sleep the weary and outworn sleep of the wretched while those sweet and soothing visions were still busy at her heart? And if so, breathes there one who would have roused her, whatever may have been her faults, from such a slumber?
FOOTNOTES:
[263] Richelieu, Unpublished MSS.
[264] Mézeray, vol. xi. p. 134.
[265] Bassompierre, Mém. p. 123.
[266] Bassompierre, Mém. p. 126. D'Estrées, Mém. p. 418.
[267] Richelieu, Mém. book viii. p. 411.
[268] Déageant was a man of considerable talent, but crafty and ambitious; his whole career was one of deceit and truckling. After numerous vicissitudes he was committed to the Bastille, where he beguiled the weariness of captivity by composing his Memoirs.
[269] Sismondi, vol. xxii. pp. 391, 392. Le Vassor, vol. i. p. 583. Richelieu, Unpublished MSS.
[270] Siri, Mém. Rec. vol. iv. pp. 29-31. Mercure Français, 1617.