“Then,” said he, “they think it was I who played them these tricks!”
“Perhaps it was I.”
“And you have the conscience to reproach a man who had such fine ideas.”
“Well, I pardon you. But I have another complaint to make. What did you do to deliver me from my unlucky situation?”
“You see, I came to Anjou.”
“It seems to me that you would have been more useful nearer.”
“Ah! there we differ; I preferred coming to Anjou.”
“Your caprice is a bad reason.”
“But, if I came to gather your partisans?”
“Ah! that is different. What have you done?”