Part 100 (1/2)
Fouquet began to walk about in his chamber with an uneasiness that became neur?” said Gourville
”If it were really as easy as you say, I would go to the king,” cried Fouquet ”But as I go to the Louvre, I will pass by the Hotel de Ville
We shall see if the sentence is signed”
”Incredulity! thou art the pest of all greathis shoulders
”Gourville!”
”Yes,” continued he, ”and incredulity! thou ruinest, as contagion destroys the most robust health; that is to say, in an instant”
”Let us go,” cried Fouquet; ”desire the door to be opened, Gourville”
”Be cautious,” said the latter, ”the Abbe Fouquet is there”
”Ah! my brother,” replied Fouquet, in a tone of annoyance; ”he is there, is he? he knows all the ill news, then, and is rejoiced to bring it to me, as usual The devil! if my brother is there, my affairs are bad, Gourville; why did you not tell me that sooner: I should have been the neur calu; ”if he is come, it is not with a bad intention”
”What, do you excuse him?” cried Fouquet; ”a felloithout a heart, without ideas; a devourer of wealth”
”He knows you are rich”
”And would ruin me”
”No, but he would have your purse That is all”
”Enough! enough! A hundred thousand crowns pertwo years
Corbleu! it is I that pay, Gourville, and I know hed in a silent, slypays,” said the superintendent ”Ah, Gourville, that is a vile joke; this is not the place”
”Monseigneur, do not be angry”
”Well, then, send away the Abbe Fouquet; I have not a sou” Gourville made a step towards the door ”He has been ame,”
continued Fouquet, ”why could he not be twoin bad company,” said Gourville, ”and prefers you to all his bandits”
”Thanks for the preference! You e advocate, Gourville, to-day--the advocate of the Abbe Fouquet!”
”Eh! but everything and every neur”
”The bandits whom the abbe keeps in pay and drink have their useful side, have they? Prove that, if you please”
”Let the circulad to have these bandits under your hand”
”You advise me, then, to be reconciled to the abbe?” said Fouquet, ironically
”I advise you, neur, not to quarrel with a hundred or a hundred and twenty loose felloho, by putting their rapiers end to end, would for three thousand lance at Gourville, and passing before him,--”That is all very well; let M l'Abbe Fouquet be introduced,” said he to the footht, Gourville”