La Dame de Monsoreau by Dumas Alexandre 1802-1870

Author:Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: France -- History Henry III, 1574-1589 Fiction
Publisher: New York : T.Y. Crowell
Published: 1900-04-03T05:00:00+00:00

pride of the Kingdom of France and the Parisians are a remarkably clever people; the song says so."

And the monk began to sing at the top of his voice :

"'You've come from Paris, fair friend; — So you know all that ever was penned!''

But the ass blended his accompaniment so loudly and energetically with the words, or rather, with the air, that he stopped the mouth of his rider.

The people buHtet into a roar of laughter.

" Keep still, Panurge, keep still, I say," cried the monk; k "you shall speak in your turn; but let me speak first.' 7

The ass was quiet.

" My brethren," continued the preacher, " the earth is a valley of tears, a place where, most of the time, a man can quench his thirst only with his tears."

u Why, he's dead drunk ! " said the King.

" Not unlikely," answered Chicot.

" I, who speak to you," continued the monk, " am returning from exile like the Hebrews, and, for a whole week, Panurge and myself have been living on alms and privations."

" Who is Panurge ? " inquired the King.

" Probably the superior of his convent," answered Chicot. " But let me listen; the artless creature is really affecting."

" Who made me endure all this, my friends ? It was Herod. You know what Herod I mean."

" And you, too, my son," said Chicot; " I explained the .anagram to you."

" You rascal! "

" To whom are you speaking ? — to me or the ass or the monk ? "

« To all three."

" My brethren," the monk went on, " behold my ass whom I love as much as if it were a sheep! he will tell you that we have come from Villeneuve-le-Eoi in three days in order to take part in to-night's great solemnity. And how have we come ? -

"'With empty purse, »

And gullet dry.'

But no affliction could keep me and Panurge away."

" But who the devil is Panurge ? " asked Henri, who could not keep this Pantagruelic name out of his head.

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