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"To Your Majesty it is a pleasing comedy," said I, "but to me, helas! it is nearer far to tragedy." "Come, Marcel," said he, "may I not laugh a little? One grows so sad with being King of France!

Sabatini, Rafael. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys… (p. 275). Kindle Edition.

To deprive a fool of his head seems a work of supererogation." I...smiled at his pleasantry. Louis...rarely permitted himself to jest...his humour was as like unto humour as water is like unto wine. Still, when a monarch jests...you smile.

Sabatini, Rafael. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys… (p. 271). Kindle Edition.

If you would have food for reflection upon the evanescent quality of life, upon the nothingness of man, upon the empty, heartless egoism implicit in human nature, get yourselves sentenced to death, and then look around you.

Sabatini, Rafael. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys… (p. 155). Kindle Edition.

...the human mind is a curiously complex thing, and with some of us there is no such spur to humour as the sting of pain.

Sabatini, Rafael. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys… (p. 82). Kindle Edition.

And yet I drifted with the tide of things. It was my habit so to drift, and the habit of a lifetime is not to be set at naught in a day by a resolve, however firm. A score of times was I reminded that an evil is but increased by being
ignored.

Sabatini, Rafael. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys… (p. 74). Kindle Edition.