Darpent?' while
Annora called to me to take our cloaks and come up to the roof of the
house to see what was going on. She was in high spirits, no doubt
laughing within herself to see how every danger made my mother invoke
M. Darpent, and finding in a tumult a sure means of meeting him, for
she could trust to him to come and offer his protection.
I SAW that she heard his voice on the stairs before he actually made
his appearance, telling my mother that he had hastened to assure her
that we were in no danger. The rising was due to M. de Boutteville,
who, being disappointed in his plan of seizing the Cardinal's nieces
as hostages, had gone galloping up and down Paris with his sword
drawn, shouting that the two darlings of the people, M. de Beaufort
and the Coadjutor, had been seized. He wildly hoped that the uproar
this was sure to excite would frighten the Queen-Regent into
releasing the Princes as she had before released Broussel.
But the Coadjutor had come out with torches carried before him, and
had discovered the name of the true prisoners, whose arrogance had so
deeply offended the populace. He had summoned the Duke of Beaufort--
the King of the Markets, as he was called--and he was riding about
the streets with a splendid suite, whose gilded trappings glistened
in the torchlight.
So deeply had the Prince's arrogance offended all Paris that the
whole city passed from rage into a transport of joy, and the servants
came and called us up to the top of the house to see the strange
sight of the whole city illuminated.
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