Thus shall the detractors and calumniators best be confounded.

Assure his Majesty and his ministers that I will do my utmost to avert our ruin and his Majesty's disservice." The treaty was made, and from that time forth the antagonism between the eminent statesman and the great military chieftain became inevitable.

The importance of the one seemed likely to increase day by day.

The occupation of the other for a time was over.
During the war Maurice had been, with exception of Henry IV., the most considerable personage in Europe.

He was surrounded with that visible atmosphere of power the poison of which it is so difficult to resist, and through the golden haze of which a mortal seems to dilate for the vulgar eye into the supernatural.