You were clearing an annual pension of four millions; you never observed me; and you find out there is such a person in the world, just at the moment you--" "Just at the moment I am about to fall," interrupted Fouquet.

"That is true, my dear Monsieur d'Artagnan." "I did not say so." "But you thought so; and that is the same thing.

Well! if I fall, take my word as truth, I shall not pass a single day without saying to myself, as I strike my brow, 'Fool! fool!--stupid mortal! You had a Monsieur d'Artagnan under your eye and hand, and you did not employ him, you did not enrich him!'" "You overwhelm me," said the captain.

"I esteem you greatly." "There exists another man, then, who does not think as M.Colbert thinks," said the surintendant.
"How this M.Colbert looms up in your imagination! He is worse than fever!" "Oh! I have good cause," said Fouquet.

"Judge for yourself." And he related the details of the course of the lighters, and the hypocritical persecution of Colbert.