The king, however, who sought distraction, while traveling as fast as possible--for he was anxious to be in Paris by the twenty-third--stopped from time to time to fly the magpie, a pastime for which the taste had been formerly inspired in him by de Luynes, and for which he had always preserved a great predilection.
Sin embargo, el rey, que buscaba distracción, aunque caminando lo más deprisa que le era posible, porque deseaba llagar a Paris para el 23, se detenía de vez en cuando para cazar la picaza, pasatiempo cuyo gusto le fuera inspirado antaño por De Luynes, y por el que siempre había conservado gran predilección.