The price of the irresistible gun would have been much greater, your Majesty, but for the fact that its missiles can be so effectively averted by my peculiar method of treating the armour plates with a new- "
May it please your Majesty," cried the Ingenious Patriot, in terror, "one of them contains tobacco.
At first, indeed, His Majesty thought his queer visitor was laughing at him, and was inclined to resent such a liberty; but it was not without reason that the Scarecrow had attained the reputation of being the wisest personage in the Land of Oz.
Your Majesty forgets that I cannot understand you," replied the Pumpkinhead.
Sire," replied the courtier, laughing, in order that he might seem to comprehend the quotation, "your majesty may be perfectly right in relying on the good feeling of France, but I fear I am not altogether wrong in dreading some desperate attempt.
Monsieur," said the baron to the duke, "all the servants of his majesty must approve of the latest intelligence which we have from the Island of Elba.
For that purpose, yes, sire; your majesty will be at the head of ten thousand men in less than an hour.
I will take the liberty of observing to your majesty, that any proceedings instituted respecting these matters would bring down the greatest scandal upon the dignity of the throne.
Three of my best soldiers, whom your
Majesty knows by name, and whose devotedness you have more than once appreciated, and who have, I dare affirm to the king, his service much at heart--three of my best soldiers, I say, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, had made a party of pleasure with a young fellow from Gascony, whom I had introduced to them the same morning.
Now, this evening, they saw that your
majesty colored with endeavoring to conceal the inclination to yawn, that your
majesty looked with eloquent supplications, first at his eminence, and then at her
majesty, the queen-mother, and at length to the entrance door, and they so thoroughly remarked all I have said, that they saw your
majesty's lips articulate these words: `Who will get me out of this?
His imperial
majesty spoke often to me, and I returned answers: but neither of us could understand a syllable.
Laporte," said Anne of Austria, in an undertone, "find some very dull book to read to his
majesty, but do not undress yourself.
