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a jo THE ADVENTURES
he was afraid of being infulted by the populace in
coming out of the palace, he flipped away early in
the morning by the kitchen-door, and getting into a
forry coach, with his confeflbr and me, fafely pro¬
ceeded for Loeches, a village belonging to him,
where his lady had built a magnificent convent of
nuns of the Dominican order. Thither he repaired
in lefs than four hours, and all his attendants arri¬
ved foon after.
The anxiety mi cares -which at firfl dijiurbed the rtpaft
if the Count- Duke, and the happy tranquillity by -which
they -were fucceeded. The occupations of the Mhdjier
in his retreat.
ADAM d’Olivarez let her hufband let out for
Loeches, and ftaid a few days after him at
court, with a defign to try if by her tears and en¬
treaties fhe could not effedt his being recalled : but
in vain did fhe proftrate herfelf before their Make¬
files; the King had no regard to her remonftrances,
though artfully prepared ; and the Queen, who ha¬
ted her mortally, beheld her tears with pleafure.
The Minifter’s wife was not repulfed for all that:
fhe humbled herfelf fo far as to implore the good
-offices of the Queen’s ladies; but the fruit which
flie reaped from her meannefs, was to perceive that
It excited contempt rather than compalfion. Vexed
at having taken fuch humbling fleps to no purpofe,
•fhe went and joined her hufband, to grieve with him
•for the lofs of a place, which, under a reign like
-that of Philip the Fourth, was perhaps the firfl of
-the monarchy.
This lady’s report of the condition in which flic
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