'But we have on our side the Princess, Father Guarini, you, Father Volger and Faustina,' he said eagerly.
Brühl smiled. 'Sulkowski has on his side the Prince's favour and heart.'
'Yes, it is true, that weak people are stubborn, said the Prince, 'but acting on them slowly and intelligently one can always influence them. Never too suddenly, for their feebleness, which they feel, makes them stubborn; one must act on them in such a way as to make them believe that they act by themselves.'
'Sulkowski was the Prince's playmate in boyhood, he trusts him in matters in which he would trust nobody else.'
'I do not deny that the work is difficult, but I do not think it impossible,' answered Lichtenstein. 'But that plan? Have you seen it? Have you read it?'
Brühl checked the Prince's impatience by a cool business question.
'Prince, permit me to speak first about the conditions.'
'With the greatest pleasure.'
'I am very sorry, for I respect Sulkowski for other reasons,' said Brühl; 'he is attached to the Prince, he is faithful to him; he thinks he could make Saxony powerful; but if his influence increases, his ambition may lead him on wrong roads. Sulkowski does not appreciate our saintly Princess; Sulkowski does not respect the clergy.'
'My dear Brühl,' interrupted the Prince, 'I know him as well as you do, if not better; he does not stand on ceremony when he is with me; I knew him in Vienna, where he was with the Prince.'