Part 82 (1/2)
”You are, in fact, sire,” said the iures
”Well, but yet, monsieur, the , I bring your majesty a note of funds which M le Cardinal Mazarin was not willing to set down in his testament, neither in any act whatever, but which he confided to me”
”To you?”
”Yes, sire, with an injunction to remit it to your majesty”
”What! besides the forty millions of the testament?”
”Yes, sire”
”M de Mazarin had still other funds?”
Colbert bowed
”Why, that”M de Mazarin on one side, M Fouquet on the other,--more than a hundred millions perhaps between them! No wonder
”And is the su
”Yes, sire, it is a round su to how much?”
”To thirteen millions of livres, sire”
”Thirteenwith joy; ”do you say thirteen millions, Monsieur Colbert?”
”I said thirteen norant?”
”Of which everybody is ignorant”
”Which are in your hands?”
”In my hands, yes, sire”
”And which I can have?”
”Within two hours, sire”
”But where are they, then?”
”In the cellar of a house which the cardinal possessed in the city, and which he was so kind as to leave me by a particular clause of his will”
”You are acquainted with the cardinal's will, then?”