The old dotard Bassompierre shall be doomed for perpetual imprisonment, and so shall the assassin Marechal de Vitry, for that was the punishment they voted me.

As for Marillac, who counselled death, I reserve death for him at the first false step he makes, and I beg thee, Joseph, to remind me of him; we must be just to all.

The Duc de Bouillon still keeps up his head proudly on account of his Sedan, but I shall make him yield.

Their blindness is truly marvellous! They think themselves all free to conspire, not perceiving that they are merely fluttering at the ends of the threads that I hold in my hand, and which I lengthen now and then to give them air and space.

Did the Huguenots cry out as one man at the death of their dear duke ?" "Less so than at the affair of Loudun, which is happily concluded." "What! Happily?
I hope that Grandier is dead ?" "Yes; that is what I meant.