Calico Illustrated Classics: The Man in the Iron Mask

Calico Illustrated Classics: The Man in the Iron Mask — page 5
You are about to hear a secret which they think is buried with the dead While the court rejoiced and the king showed the newborn to his nobles the queen gave birth to a second son The king feared the second son might one day cause civil war Oh I understand murmured the young man This is why the second son Philippe has disappeared so completely that not a soul in France is aware of his existence except his mother Aramis continued And yourself asked the young man Do you possess about you a portrait of the king Louis XIV The bishop handed the prisoner a small portrait The prisoner seized the portrait and gazed at it And now monseigneur here is a mirror The young man eagerly compared the likeness of Louis with his own image 8