Part 76 (1/2)

The duchesse bit her nails

”Besides,” continued Colbert, ”what a poor capture would this bishop be!

A bishop gahtest notice of him”

The hatred of the duchesse now discovered itself

”Game for a woman!” said she ”Is not the queen a woman? If she wishes M d'Herblay arrested, she has her reasons Besides, is not M d'Herblay the friend of him who is doomed to fall?”

”Oh! never mind that,” said Colbert ”ThisIs that displeasing to you?”

”I say nothing”

”Yes--you wish to see him in prison, in the Bastile, for instance”

”I believe a secret better concealed behind the walls of the Bastile than behind those of Belle-Isle”

”I will speak to the king about it; he will clear up the point”

”And whilst waiting for that enlightenment, Monsieur l'Eveque de Vannes will have escaped I would do so”

”Escaped! he! and whither should he escape? Europe is ours, in will, if not in fact”

”He will always find an asylu of the man you have to do with You do not know D'Herblay; you do not know Aramis He was one of those four , ency, gave so neur Mazarin”

”But, dodom, he! what, Monsieur d'Herblay?”

”I repeat to you, dom, he either has it or will have it”

”Well, as you are so earnest that this rebel should not escape, madame, I promise you he shall not escape”

”Belle-Isle is fortified, M Colbert, and fortified by him”

”If Belle-Isle were also defended by hinable; and if Monsieur l'Eveque de Vannes is shut up in Belle-Isle, well, ed, and he will be taken”

”You may be very certain, monsieur, that the zeal you display in the interest of the queen-nificently rewarded; but what shall I tell her of your projects respecting this man?”

”That when once taken, he shall be shut up in a fortress from which her secret shall never escape”

”Very well, Monsieur Colbert, and wefrom this instant, we have formed a solid alliance, that is, you and I, and that I am absolutely at your service”