Part 136 (1/2)
”Yes, sire”
”Are you sure?”
”Perfectly Do you know, sire, what soldiers there are in Belle-Isle?”
”No, norant, likewise, sire; I should therefore propose to your majesty to send somebody to Belle-Isle?”
”Who?”
”Me, for instance”
”And ould you do at Belle-Isle?”
”Inform myself whether, after the exa his walls”
”And hat purpose could he do that?”
”With the purpose of defending hi”
”But, if it be thus, M Colbert,” said Louis, ”we must immediately do as you say; M Fouquet ht I had already told you, monsieur, that I suppressed that word in my service”
”The service of your eneral”
”Well?”
”That, in consequence of holding that post, he has for hiesses, literature by his favors, and the noblesse by his presents”
”That is to say, then, that I can do nothing against M Fouquet?”
”Absolutely nothing,--at least at present, sire”
”You are a sterile counselor, M Colbert”
”Oh, no, sire; for I will not confineout the peril to your in to underh bitterly
”He has grown great by money; kill him by e?”
”A bad ood, then?”
”Ruin him, sire, that is the way”