have been made for some time.”  He evidently had it very much at heart that the pope should be well informed of what had taken place, and feel obliged to him for it.  “Haven’t you wits to see that the king, in order to gratify the pope, has been pleased to sacrifice my father’s honor at his feet?” said young Philip de Mornay to some courtiers who were speaking to him about this sad affair.  This language was reported to the king, who showed himself much hurt by it.  “He is a young man beside himself with grief,” they said, “and it is his own father’s case.”  “Young he is not,” replied the king; “he is forty years old, twenty in age and twenty from his father’s teaching.”  The king’s own circle and his most distinguished servants gladly joined in his self-congratulation.  “Well,” he said to Sully, “what think you of your pope?” “I think, sir,” answered Sully, “that he is more pope than you suppose; cannot you see that he gives a red hat to M. d’Evreux?  Really, I never saw a man so dumbfounded, or one who defended himself so ill.  If our religion had no better foundation than his crosswise legs and arms (Mornay habitually kept them so), I would abandon it rather to-day than to-morrow.” [OEconomies royales, t. iii. p. 346.]

Sully desired nothing better than to find Mornay at fault, and to see the king fully convinced of it.  Jealousy is nowhere more wide-awake and more implacable than at courts.  However, amongst the grandees present at the conference of Fontainebleau there were some who did not share the general impression.  “I saw there,” said the Duke of Mayenne as he went away from it, “only a very old and very faithful servant very badly paid for so many services;” and, in spite of the king’s letter, the Duke of Epernon sent word to Mornay that he still took him for a gentleman of honor, and still remained his friend.  Henry IV. himself, with his delicate and ready tact, was not slow to perceive that he had gone too far and had behaved badly.  Being informed that Mornay was in deep suffering, he sent to him M. de LomLnie, his cabinet-secretary, to fully assure him that the king would ever be his good master and friend.  “As for master,” said Mornay, “I am only too sensible of it; as for friend, he belongs not to me:  I have known men to make attempts upon the king’s life, honor, and state, nay, upon his very bed; against them, the whole of them, he never displayed so much severity as against me alone, who have done him service all my life.”  And he set out on his way back to Saumur without seeing the king again.

He returned thither with all he had dearest in the world, his wife, Charlotte Arbaleste de la Borde, his worthy partner in all his trials—­ trials of prosperity as well as adversity.  She has full right to a few lines in this History, for it was she who preserved to us, in her Memoires, the picture, so salutary to contemplate, of the life and character of Mornay, in the midst of his friends’ outbursts