Hearing that the King and Queen were expected at the chateau, he expressed his regret, and displayed an unwillingness to be taken to meet them, and though Heroard set himself, by means of a combination of promises and threats, to produce a Auvergne in Prison 85 better frame of mind, his efforts were not attended with success. " You will, then, not have the fine drum and beautiful drumsticks that [the King] is bringing you," he warned him. " He will give them to M. de Verneuil. Eh bien! " as the child flung himself upon him in an access of fury, " eh bien ! you beat me. What do you wish papa to do with that drum ?" " * Let him give it to Moucheu de Veneuil,' he replied, shaking his head as if it was a thing he despised. He cannot forget the rough treatment at Fontainebleau." The child's demeanour was a vexation to Henri, who, probably conscious that he himself had been to blame, was inclined to lay the responsibility for his son's prolonged resentment on others. But he can have had no more than a divided attention to bestow upon the Dauphin's ill-humour; and more serious subjects were weighing on his mind.
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