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The king, highly exasperated, could hardly read the letter which Chicot gave to him. While he deciphered the Latin with every sign of impatience, Chicot, before a great Venetian mirror, which hung over a gilt table, was admiring the infinite grace of his own person under his military dress.
"Oh! I am betrayed," cried Henri, when he had finished the letter; "the Bearnais had a plan, and I never suspected it."