A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . ollnitzs favourite resort during his stay inSpain ; he enjoyed the beautiful gardens and the avenuesof Charles V on the borders of the Tagus. The Kings only reply was his habitual I willattend to it. Grimaldo was the only Minister present,and to him Pollnitz applied later for news of the result ofhis placet. After much humming and hawing, and manydelays, the Marquis sent him back to the Father Con-fessor. Pollnitzs humble request to the latter was illreceived. Daubenton had other matters to attend tothan th
A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . ollnitzs favourite resort during his stay inSpain ; he enjoyed the beautiful gardens and the avenuesof Charles V on the borders of the Tagus. The Kings only reply was his habitual I willattend to it. Grimaldo was the only Minister present,and to him Pollnitz applied later for news of the result ofhis placet. After much humming and hawing, and manydelays, the Marquis sent him back to the Father Con-fessor. Pollnitzs humble request to the latter was illreceived. Daubenton had other matters to attend tothan the Barons placet, and told him so remarked that Grimaldo had sent him to him. Oh ! Grimaldo ! he interrupted, and, going into hisstudy, shut the door in Pollnitzs face. The two favouriteshated each other. Pollnitz thought best to await a more favourableopportunity. Next day I placed myself in the posture of a suppliantin the corner of his hall. His Jesuit companion, seeingme, begged me to step into the anteroom. This Iforbore to do, saying it was too much honour. The. THE VAGRANT 289 truth was that I wished to be sure of getting speech ofthe confessor, for I noticed that the Reverend Fatheroften played a school-boy trick on those waiting in theanteroom : he would pass out by a little door whichopened actually into the hall in which I stood. I waited a good hour, and then I thought I saw myman come out by the bolt-hole. I seized him as hepassed, and found him in a better frame of mind. I wastold to call to-morrow to hear the Kings reply. I didnot fail to appear, but only to be told that it had beenimpossible for him to speak to the King about it, buthe would do so next day, without fail. These days passed insensibly into weeks, and weeksinto months ; I grew despairing. No one could accuseme of not petitioning. Not a morning did I miss takinga turn in the confessors anteroom. He saw me wellenough, and sometimes honoured me with a slight nod,at others only swept m
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