The Grand Pensionary smiled.
“What should he hunt but herons, Mynheer?—you are too suspicious.”
“By Heaven! I would not have let him go.”
M. de Witt turned over the reports brought him by Florent.
“He hath gone, Count, nor will he return till to-night. To-morrow I will, as you urge me, again see him on the subject of these disturbances.”
“And also concerning his party in the Assembly,” added Montbas, “who hamper us at every step——”
“He has no power with them.”
“I do not know—they use his name——”
“And would do that whether he would or no——”