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Chapter 23. The Fall Of The Catinats.
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Two days after Madame de Maintenon’s marriage to the king there was held within the humble1 walls of her little room a meeting which was destined2 to cause untold3 misery4 to many hundreds of thousands of people, and yet, in the wisdom of Providence5, to be an instrument in carrying French arts and French ingenuity6 and French sprightliness7 among those heavier Teutonic peoples who have been the stronger and the better ever since for the leaven8 which they then received. For in history great evils have sometimes arisen from a virtue9, and most beneficent results have often followed hard upon a crime.
The time had come when the Church was to claim her promise from madame, and her pale cheek and sad eyes showed how vain it had been for her to try and drown the pleadings of her tender heart by the arguments of the bigots around her. She knew the Huguenots of France. Who could know them better, seeing that she was herself from their stock, and had been brought up in their faith? She knew their patience, their nobility, their independence, their tenacity10. What chance was there that they would conform to the king’s wish? A few great nobles might, but the others would laugh at the galleys12, the jail, or even the gallows13 when the faith of their fathers was at stake. If their
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captivity
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abjure
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baton
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eldest
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