“Do you think that I will alter the whole aim of my life to buy a little favour now? Do you imagine that I will trim my course to please this youth who was my pupil?”
“And now is your master.”
“I do not admit it, nor ever will—there is no master in this Republic.”
M. Fagel answered with some impatience—
“So—you are not tractable—you will not work under the Prince?”
“I will work with him, when I agree with him.”
“Very well—you cannot expect, Mynheer, to find the Stadtholder friendly.”
“I expect,” said John de Witt proudly, “to find him just.”
“This attitude of yours will not please him.”
“I cannot care for that.”