"And you did well, count," cried the Cardinal de Polignac.
"But what are we to do now?" asked Madame de Maine.
"Have the press taken to my house," said Pompadour.
"Or mine," said Valef.
"No, no," said Malezieux; "a press is too dangerous a means. One of the police may easily slip in among the workmen, and all will be lost. Besides, there cannot be much left to print."
"The greater part is done," said Laval.
"Well," continued Malezieux, "my advice is, as before, to employ some intelligent copyist, whose silence we can buy."
"Yes, this will be much safer," said Polignac.
"But where can we find such a man?" said the prince. "It is not a thing for which we can take the first comer."
"If I dared," said the Abbe Brigaud.