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FOR the Queen the decision to send the Cardinal to trial was a final action. The thing was done-and, for that matter, nearly done with.
When she could find time in an interval of her occupations to write to her brother Joseph-it was not till a fortnight later-the whole letter, though it dealt in detail with the affair as one deserving a full explanation, was written upon a tone of relief. It was tuned all of it to one key-phrase: "I am delighted to think that we shall never hear of this filthy business again."