"Sure! Sure! It must have been very convenient, monsieur."
"Zounds! I should say so!"
"If I understand you rightly, monsieur, the King, the priests and the seigneurs said: 'Do that!'—and it was done?"
"Just so!"
"Pay!—and people paid?"
"Exactly."
"Go!—and people went?"
"Why! Yes! Yes!"
"In short, everything as on the parade ground—to the right!—to the left!—forward!—double quick! People did not even have the trouble to will this or that? The King, the seigneurs and the clergy took to themselves the trouble of willing for us? And they have changed that! They have changed all that!!!"
"Fortunately we need not despair, my dear Monsieur Lebrenn."