"The ballot was without names, no one knew my vote. I should have been taken for a coward."
"And you came to Paris?"
"For the task imposed on me."
"Reckoning on me?"
"As on an enemy of the regent, for aid in accomplishing an enterprise which not only concerns the interests of Spain, but which will save our friends from the Bastille."
"Do they run as much danger as you believe?"
"Death hovers over them; the regent has proofs, and has said of M. de Richelieu that if he had four heads he has wherewith to condemn them all."
"He said that in a moment of passion."
"What, monseigneur, you defend the duke—you tremble when a man devotes himself to save, not only his accomplices, but two kingdoms—you hesitate to accept that devotion."
"If you fail!"