of Spain is a bigot.

He is, perhaps, the confessor of Phillip III." "You must go higher even than that." "_Mordieu!_" cried Colbert, who forgot himself so far as to swear in the presence of this great lady, of this old friend of the queen-mother.

"He must then be the general of the Jesuits." "I believe you have guessed it at last," replied the duchesse.
"Ah! then, madame, this man will ruin us all if we do not ruin him; and we must make haste, too." "Such was my opinion, monsieur, but I did not dare to give it you." "And it was lucky for us he has attacked the throne, and not us." "But, mark this well, M.Colbert.

M.d'Herblay is never discouraged; if he has missed one blow, he will be sure to make another; he will begin again.

If he has allowed an opportunity to escape of making a king for himself, sooner or later, he will make another, of whom, to a certainty, you will not be prime minister." Colbert knitted his brow with a menacing expression.