"Yes; but his face, as well as his name, is known at court. Monsieur de Canolles has been there several times."
"A la bonne heure! that's a strong argument; it's the first you have put forward, and you see that I yield to it."
"Moreover, you might fall in with your political opponents there," said Nanon; "and perhaps your face, although under a different name, is as well known as Monsieur de Canolles'."
"Oh! that would amount to nothing, if, as the duke says, the mission is destined to result advantageously to France. The message will be the messenger's safeguard. A service of such importance implies pardon for him who renders it, and amnesty for the past is always the first condition of political conversions. And so, dear sister, it is not for you, but for me, to impose conditions."
"Well, what are yours?"
"In the first place, as I was saying, the first condition of every treaty,—general amnesty."
"Is that all?"
"Secondly, the adjustment of our accounts."
"It would seem that I owe you something, then?"
"You owe me the hundred pistoles, which you inhumanly refused me."