'No!'
'Peste! do they include the right of intromitting with the King's mistress?'
'King Louis will hear more of this; if he wishes, a town taken in Lorraine, or a castle stormed on the Rhine.'
'Your Scottish government may, if they choose, place a French gentleman in the castle of Edinburgh, by way of reprisal,' sneered De Brissac.
'That will comfort me mightily.'
'I presume there is no lack of French fiddlers and dancing masters in Scotland?'
'There are twenty thousand Scots now under Hepburn and La Force; I would they were all to-night in Paris.'
'The Marechal de la Force is a brave fellow.'
'Ay, none is braver. He will face the devil or a cannon-ball—'
'But he cannot face his angry wife.'