"Have you swum the Seine in your clothes ?" "No, your Eminence, but I have been serving you in the rain for the past hour." He smiled that peculiar smile of his that rendered hateful his otherwise not ill-favoured countenance.

It was a smile of the lips in which the eyes had no part.
"Yes," he said slowly, "I have heard of your achievements." "You have heard ?" I ejaculated, amazed by the powers which this man wielded.
"Yes, I have heard.

You are a brave man, M.de Luynes." "Pshaw, your Eminence!" I deprecated; "the poor are always brave.

They have naught to lose but their life, and that is not so sweet to them that they lay much store by it.

Howbeit, Monseigneur, your wishes have been carried out.