"Take example by me.

I should be utterly undone if I had listened to any overture on this subject." Nevertheless it was the opinion of the astute and caustic envoy that the Duke would be forced to yield at last.

The Pope was making great efforts to gain him, and thus to bring about the extirpation of Protestantism in France.

And the King, at that time much under the influence of the Jesuits, had almost set his heart on the conversion.

Aerssens insinuated that Sully was dreading a minute examination into the affairs of his administration of the finances--a groundless calumny--and would be thus forced to comply.