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“ Where are you, my son Louis ? ” To whomthe king approaching; “ What do you want,

mother?” 1 And Queen Blanche, with deep sighs,and melting into tears; “Oh, my dear son, whatis to be done in the terrible emergency, predictedby the news that lias reached us? This invasion ofTartars threatens us with one universal ruin; usand Holy Church! ” To which the king, in a plain-tive tone, but not without something of divine in-spiration, “ Then, dearest mother, may the consola-tions of Heaven sustain us! If those barbariansassail us, either we shall drive them back to theTartarus, whence they came, or better still, theysend us to Paradise! ” So leaving his mother as

1 Mathew Paris.—Bib. Crois., ii. 815.