CHAPTER LXXXI.

THE GRATITUDE OF ANNE OF AUSTRIA. Athos found much less difficulty than he had expected in obtaining an audience of Anne of Austria; it was granted, and was to take place, after her morning's "levée," at which, in accordance with the rights he derived from his rank, he was entitled to be present. A vast crowd filled the apartments of Saint Germain; Anne had never, at the Louvre, had so large a court; but this crowd represented chiefly the second class of nobility, while the Prince de Conti, the Duc de Beaufort, and…