ender of his
principality, his estates in France were to be enlarged, and a
considerable pension granted to him.

All this was a terrible trial to Turenne, who was deeply attached to his
brother, and who mourned not only the danger he had incurred, but that
he should have broken his engagements, and while commanding a royal army
should have plotted against the royal authority.

At the end of November the cardinal's illness, from which he had long
suffered, took an unfavourable turn, and the king, who had returned to
Paris, went to see him. Richelieu advised him to place his confidence
in the two secretaries of state, Chavigny and de Noyers, recommended
Cardinal Mazarin strongly as first minister of the crown, and handed
the king a document he had prepared barring the Duke of Orleans from any
share in the regency in case of the king's death, the preamble calling
to mind that the king had five times pardoned his brother, who had yet
recently engaged in a fresh plot against him. On the 2nd of December,
1642, Richelieu died, and the king, on the following day, carried out
his last advice, and appointed Mazarin to a place in his council.

The year had passed quietly with Hector Campbell. His duties had been
but slight during the siege, and as during his stay at Sedan and in
Switzerland he had continued to work hard at Italian, at the former
place under a teacher, who instructed him in more courtly dialect than
that which he acquired from Paolo, so during the six months before
Perpignan he had, after taking the advice of Turenne, set himself to
acquire a knowledge of German. Working at this for eight hours a day
under the tuition of a German gentleman, who had been compelled to leave
the country when his native town was captured by the Imperialists, he
was soon able to converse as fluently in it as in Italian.

"It is in Germany that the next great campaign is likely to take place,"
Turenne said to him, "and your knowledge of German will be of infinite
utility to you. Fortunately for myself, Sedan standing on the border
between the two countries, I acquired German as well as French without
labour, and while in Holland spoke it rather than French; the knowledge
of languages is of great importance to one who would rise high in the
army or at the court, and I am very glad that you have acquired German,
as it may be of great use to you if we are called upon to invade that
country again, that is, if the new council of the king