Greatcriminalsbearaboutthemakindofpredestinationwhichmakesthemsurmountallobstacles, whichmakesthemescapealldangers, uptothemomentwhichaweariedProvidencehasmarkedastherockoftheirimpiousfortunes.
, andarrivedatBoulognewithoutaccident.
WhenlandingatPortsmouth, MiladywasanEnglishwomanwhomthepersecutionsoftheFrenchdrovefromLaRochelle; whenlandingatBoulogne, afteratwodays' passage, shepassedforaFrenchwomanwhomtheEnglishpersecutedatPortsmouthoutoftheirhatredforFrance.
Miladyhad, likewise, thebestofpassports—herbeauty, hernobleappearance, , whokissedherhand, sheonlyremainedlongenoughatBoulognetoputintothepostaletter, conceivedinthefollowingterms:
"TohisEminenceMonseigneurtheCardinalRichelieu, inhiscampbeforeLaRochelle.
"Monseigneur, .
"MILADYDE ——
"BOULOGNE, eveningofthetwenty-fifth.
"P.S.—AccordingtothedesireofyourEminence, IreporttotheconventoftheCarmelitesatBethune, whereIwillawaityourorders."
Accordingly, ; shestopped, 'clockthenextmorningsheagainproceeded, , andwentthitherimmediately.
Thesuperiormether; Miladyshowedherthecardinal', andhadbreakfastserved.
Allthepastwaseffacedfromtheeyesofthiswoman; andherlooks, fixedonthefuture, beheldnothingbutthehighfortunesreservedforherbythecardinal, -newpassionswhichconsumedhergavetoherlifetheappearanceofthosecloudswhichfloatintheheavens, reflectingsometimesazure, sometimesfire, sometimestheopaqueblacknessofthetempest, andwhichleavenotracesupontheearthbehindthembutdevastationanddeath.
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