It is what it cost me.

And you shall have your documents in two days and the Hafner papers this week.

But was that Bourbon who sacked Rome a Frenchman ?" he continued.

"And Charles d'Anjou, who fell upon us to make himself King of the two Sicilies?
And Charles VIII, who entered by the Porte du Peuple?
Were they Frenchmen?
Why did they come to meddle in our affairs?
Ah, if we were to calculate closely, how much you owe us! Was it not we who gave you Mazarin, Massena, Bonaparte and many others who have gone to die in your army in Russia, in Spain and elsewhere?
And at Dijon?
Did not Garibaldi stupidly fight for you, who would have taken from him his country?
We are quits on the score of service....

But take your prayer-book-good-evening, good-evening.