"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. "

I wonder what this pastime consisted of. With this new computer, I can't look up things nearly as readily as with the old computer. And the command to print in red won't work. A four letter word starting with s and ending with t.