CHAPTER XXXVIII.

HENRIETTA AND MAZARIN. The Cardinal rose, and advanced in haste to receive the Queen of England. He showed the more respect to this queen, deprived of all pomp, and without followers, as he felt some self-reproach for his own want of heart and his avarice. But suppliants for favour know how to vary the expression of their features, and the daughter of Henry IV. smiled as she advanced to meet one whom she hated and despised. "Ah!" said Mazarin to himself, "what a noble face! does she come to borrow money of me?" And…