"He is almost sixty; he is a worthy man; he has been with us about five or six years."
"I commend myself to you, to him and to all your family."
"Surely, Sire, it is much to be desired that you should remain; because if you should happen to depart or if some misfortune should come to you, we others would risk nothing also by going away, because there are also evil people in our country; they are not lacking."
After having renewed all the recommendations which the archangel had charged him to transmit to the King, Martin wishes Louis XVIII good health and asks his permission to return "to the center of his family."
"I have given orders to send you back there."
"It has always been announced to me that no harm and no evil would happen to me."
"Nor will anything happen to you; you will return there tomorrow; the minister is going to give you supper and a bedroom and papers to take you back."
"But I would like it if I could return to Charenton to bid them good-by and to get a shirt which I left there."
"Did it not trouble you to remain at Charenton? Did you get along well there?"
"No trouble at all; and surely if I did not get along well there, I would not ask to go back."