Chicot the Jester (PDF, MOBI, EPUB, FB2, TEXT)
"Never mind, I am going."
"Alone?"
"No, with Maugiron and Schomberg. We hunt for the king."
"Ah! yes, I understand," said Maugiron and Schomberg.
"The king wishes a boar's head for breakfast to-morrow."
"With the neck dressed ร l'Italienne," said Maugiron, alluding
to the turn-down collar which Bussy wore in opposition to their
ruffs.
"Ah, ah," said D'Epernon, "I understand."
"What is it?" asked D'O, "for I do not."
"Ah! look round you."
"Well!"
"Did any one laugh at us here?"
"Yes, Bussy."
"Well, that is the wild boar the king wants."
"You think the king----"
"He asks for it."
"Well, then, so be it. But how do we hunt?"
"In ambush; it is the surest."
Bussy remarked the conference, and, not doubting that they were
talking of him, approached, with his friends.
"Look, Antragues, look, Ribeirac," said he, "how they are grouped;
it is quite touching; it might be Euryale and Nisus, Damon and
Pythias, Castor and----. But where is Pollux?"