Having this permission, La Mole consulted Pare, who was attending him, and asked him to dress and bind his wounds with especial care. This he did, pronouncing them to be healing well, and covering them with gummed taffetas, according to the custom of the time.
Hurrying out he reduced his small store of gold by the purchase of a doublet of fine white satin, a richly embroidered cloak, and a pair of boots of perfumed leather, such as were popular in the court at that period.
While he had been in d'Alen ç on's apartment, he had had no relief of his loneliness, except that Gillonne had come once to enquire of his health, as though of her own accord, but he was hoping to see once more the face which had filled his thoughts.
And at the same moment that he looked in the mirror to assure himsel
