Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Eva - A true Story of Light and Darkness.

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I was walking some days after, in the new apartments of his palace.
I recognised the approach of the Cardinal (Mazarin) by the sound of his
slippered feet, which he dragged one after the other, as a man enfeebled
by a mortal malady. I concealed myself behind the tapestry, and I
heard him say — "Il faut quitter tout cela !" (" I must leave all that ! ")
He stopped at every step, for he was very feeble, and casting his eyes on
each object that attracted him, he sighed forth, as from the bottom of
his heart, "Ilfaut quitter tout cela! What pains have I taken to acquire
these things! Can I abandon them without regret? I shall never see
them more where I am about to go !" &c. — Mémoires inédits de Louis
Henri, Comte de Brienne. Barričre's Edition, vol. ii. p. 115