“That is all plain. Monsieur, you would make an excellent general, like monsieur le prince.”
“Have you understood me?”
“Perfectly well.”
“How much will it amount to, to make your bandits all drunk with wine, and to satisfy them with gold?”
“Oh, monsieur, what an expression! Oh! monsieur, if they heard you: some of them are very susceptible.”
“I mean to say they must be brought no longer to know the heavens from the earth; for I shall to-morrow contend with the king; and when I fight I mean to conquer—please to understand.”
“It shall be done, monsieur. Give me your other ideas.”
“That is your business.”
“Then give me your purse.”
“Gourville, count a hundred thousand livres for the abbe.”