“A good captain and a skilful negotiator.”
“The last particularly.”
“Well, is not M. de Guise all this?”
“My brother, he is very powerful already.”
“Yes, doubtless; but his power makes my strength.”
“He holds already the army and the bourgeois; the cardinal holds the Church, and Mayenne is their instrument; it is a great deal of power to be concentrated in one family.”
“It is true, François; I had thought of that.”
“If the Guises were French princes, their interest would be to aggrandize France.”
“Yes, but they are Lorraines.”
“Of a house always rival to yours.”