“Mostly disasters, Mynheer.”
“And you, like M. de Witt, have been discouraged?”
Florent shrugged his shoulders.
“I do not say so.”
“But you think that peace would be desirable, eh?”
“I think we must have peace or conquest, Mynheer.”
“Well,” said Jerome Beverningh thoughtfully, “M. de Witt is a clever man, but he will never conclude a peace while the Prince has any influence in the United Provinces.”
Florent was interested.
“His Highness is so against it?”
“Were His Highness in power there would be no embassy sent to King Louis.”