spirit of cabal she had raised against M. de Richelieu."

"Who dismissed Madame de Hautefort, that friend so loyal
that she refused the favor of the king that she might remain
in mine?"

"A prude, who told you every night, as she undressed you,
that it was a sin to love a priest, just as if one were a
priest because one happens to be a cardinal."

"Who ordered Monsieur de Beaufort to be arrested?"

"An incendiary the burden of whose song was his intention to
assassinate me."

"You see, cardinal," replied the queen, "that your enemies
are mine."

"That is not enough madame, it is necessary that your
friends should be also mine."

"My friends, monsieur?" The queen shook her head. "Alas, I
have them no longer!"

"How is it that you have no friends in your prosperity when
you had many in adversity?"

"It is because in my prosperity I forgot those old friends,
monsieur; because I have acted like Queen Marie de Medicis,
who, returning from her first exile, treated with contempt