"On me, Dick?" responded the latter; "it has a contrary effect on me; every moment I wake with a start. It seems to me that I should sleep thus the eve of the day that I was going to be shot."
"As for me," said another gentleman, "I know the duke only from his portrait."
"I only from his renown."
"I, as soon as I knew that it concerned marching against the Orange faction—I quitted all, friends, wife, child."
"So did we——"
"Ah, sir, it is also for James of Monmouth," said another, "that is a name which is like the sound of a trumpet."
"It suffices to pronounce this name in Old England," said another, "to drive all these Holland rats into their marshes."
"Beginning with this William——"
"On my honor, gentlemen," said De Chemerant, "you make me almost proud of having succeeded so well in an enterprise which, I dare to say, is a very delicate one. I do not wish to attribute to my reasoning, to my influence, the resolution of the prince—but believe, at least, gentlemen, that I have known how to make good use with him of the enthusiasm with which his memory has inspired you."
"And so, our friend, we will never forget what you have done! You have brought him here to us—our duke!" cried Mortimer cordially.