A baton is not much for me, as you have hinted, but it is all that was promised me.

And you, if we win, will still be minister of finances?
What is that maggot I see behind your eyes?
Is it not spelled `chancellor'?
But, remember, Madame has friends to take care of in the event of our success.

We can not have all the spoils.

To join the kingdom and the duchy will create new offices, to be sure, but we can have only part of them.

As to games, I shall, out of the kindness in my heart, tell you that I am not playing two, but three.