“But why so?”
“Because not even a prince could have done what you have done for me.”
“Nonsense! nonsense!”
“Nay, I assure you——”
“Let us speak of other matters,” said Aramis. “Or rather, tell me how your affairs here are getting on.”
“Not over well.”
“The deuce!”
“M. de Mazarin was not hard enough.”
“Yes, I see; you require a government full of suspicion—like that of the old cardinal, for instance.”
“Yes; matters went on better under him. The brother of his ‘gray eminence’ made his fortune here.”