be a good chase." Nevertheless, the chances of that return became daily
fainter. Margaret of Parma hated the Cardinal with great cordiality.
She fell out of her servitude to him into far more contemptible hands,
but for a brief interval she seemed to take a delight in the recovery of
her freedom. According to Viglius, the court, after Granvelle's
departure, was like a school of boys and girls when the pedagogue's back
is turned. He was very bitter against the Duchess for her manifest joy
at emancipation. The poor President was treated with the most marked
disdain by Margaret, who also took pains to show her dislike to all the
cardinalists. Secretary Armenteros forbade Bordey, who was Granvelle's
cousin and dependent, from even speaking to him in public. The Regent
soon became more intimate with Orange and Egmont than she had ever been
with the Cardinal. She was made to see--and, seeing, she became
indignant--the cipher which she had really been during his
administration. "One can tell what's o'clock," wrote Morillon to the
fallen minister, "since she never writes to you nor mentions your name."
As to Armenteros, with whom Granvelle was still on friendly relations,
he was restless in his endeavors to keep the once-powerful priest from
rising again. Having already wormed himself into the confidence of the
Regent, he made a point of showing to the principal seigniors various
letters, in which she had been warned by the Cardinal to put no trust in
them. "That devil," said Armenteros, "thought he had got into Paradise
here; but he is gone, and we shall take care that he never returns."
It was soon thought highly probable that the King was but temporizing,
and that the voluntary departure of the minister had been a deception.
Of course nothing was accurately known upon the subject. Philip had
taken good care of that, but meantime the bets were very high that there
would be no restoration, with but few takers. Men thought if there had
been any royal favor remaining for the great man, that the Duchess would
not be so decided in her demeanor on the subject. They saw that she was