Excerpt from The Huguenot, Vol. 2 of 2: A Tale of the French Protestants The request for an udience was conveyed through the M uis of Seigne ai, with whom the count himself was we] acquainted; and he doubted not that it would be granted immediately, if he had preceded, -as he had every reason to believe he had, the ordinary courier from Poitou, bringing the news of the events which had taken place in that province. The letter of the young secretary, in retum to his application, arrived the next morning; but it was cold and formal, and evidently written under the immediate dictation of the king. Lt merely notified to the count that, for the next three days, the time appointed by his majesty for business would be fully occupied; that, in the mean time, if the business which brought the count to Paris were impor tant, he would communicate it to the minister under whose department it came. The note went on to add, that if the business were not one requiring immediate despatch, the young count would do well to come to Versailles, to signify the place of his abode at the palace, and to wait the monarch's leisure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.