“They are your allies, nevertheless.”
“That is why they were wrong in having the medal you have heard of struck; a medal which represents Holland stopping the sun, as Joshua did, with this legend: The sun had stopped before me. There is not much fraternity in that, is there?”
“I thought you had forgotten that miserable episode?”
“I never forget anything, sister. And if my true friends, such as your brother Charles, are willing to second me—” The princess remained pensively silent.
“Listen to me; there is the empire of the seas to be shared,” said Louis XIV. “For this partition, which England submits to, could I not represent the second party as well as the Dutch?”
“We have Mademoiselle de Keroualle to treat that question,” replied Madame.
“Your second condition for going, if you please, sister?”
“The consent of Monsieur, my husband.”
“You shall have it.”
“Then consider me already gone, brother.”