“It’s not difficult to guess.”
“Does he mean to keep the power himself?”
“It looks like it.”
“The power, but not the throne?”
“Why not the throne?”
“He would never dare to make himself king.”
“Oh! I can’t say he means to be absolutely king, but I’ll answer for it that he means to be something.”
“But he is nothing but a soldier of fortune!”
“My dear fellow, better in these days to be the son of his deeds, than the grandson of a king.”
The young man thought a moment.