We will spare him the annoyance, because he is an agreeable and noble-hearted man; but we cannot save him from ill-health.

So it is determined.

When you shall have paid all M.
Fouquet's debts, and restored the finances to a sound condition, M.
Fouquet will be able to remain the sovereign ruler in his little court of poets and painters,--we shall have made him rich.

When that has been done, and I have become your royal highness's prime minister, I shall be able to think of my own interests and yours." The young man looked at his interrogator.
"M.

de Richelieu, of whom we were speaking just now, was very much to blame in the fixed idea he had of governing France alone, unaided.