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MARION.

I don't laugh now.

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.

Indeed!

I think she's weeping! Marion! You?

MARION (_wiping her eyes: with firm tone_).

My lord, I want to see his Majesty at once!

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.

For what?

MARION.

Just Heaven! For--

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.

Is it against The Cardinal?

MARION.

It is!

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (_opening the gallery for her_).

Please enter here.

I put the discontented all in there; Do not come out before the signal, please.

[_Marion enters; he shuts door._ I would have run the risk for my old friend.

It costs no more to do it for them both.

[_The hall is gradually filled with Courtiers; they talk together. Duke de Bellegarde goes from one to the other. L'Angely enters._

SCENE V

_The same. Duke de Beaupreau, Laffemas, Viscount de Rohan, Count de Charnace, Abbe de Gondi, and other courtiers_

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (_to Duke de Beaupreau_).

Good-morning, Duke!

DUKE DE BEAUPReAU.

Good-morning!

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.

Any news?

DUKE DE BEAUPReAU.

There's talk of a new cardinal.

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.

Which one?

The Archbishop of Arle?

DUKE DE BEAUPReAU.

No! Bishop of Autun.

All Paris thinks he has obtained the hat.

ABBe DE GONDI.

'Tis his by right. He was commander of Artillery at the siege of La Roch.e.l.le.

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.

That's true!

L'ANGELY.

The Holy See has my approval.

This one will be a cardinal according To the canons.

ABBe DE GONDI (_laughing_).

L'Angely--the fool!

L'ANGELY (_bowing_).

My lord knows all my names.

[_Laffemas enters; all the Courtiers vie with each other in paying court to him and surrounding him. Duke de Bellegarde watches them with vexation._

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (_to_ L'Angely).

Fool, who's that man Who wears the ermine cloak?

L'ANGELY.

Whom every one Is paying court to?

DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.

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