ascend my carriage, and drive post to Mont-Medi, as not an instant was
to be lost.  They took my advice and drove away.  I conveyed them within
a few miles of Mont-Medi, when the King, thanking me for my
assistance, hoped I would not trouble myself any farther, as he was
then, he presumed, out of danger; and the Queen also, with tears in
her eyes, thanked me on her knees, and presented the Dauphin for my
blessing.  In short, I left the King eating a mutton chop.  I advised
him not to delay, or he would certainly be taken, and setting spurs to
my horse, wished them a good evening, and returned to England.  If the
King remained too long at table, and was taken, it was not my fault. 

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