Therefore it is likely enough that my news is true.

Turenne has proved that military duty is with him supreme, for he held aloof from all the troubles in which his brother the duke has involved himself, and he may act as a counterpoise to Enghien.

I fancy that the latter's plan, which, as you have told me, would lead to a conquest of Flanders, will not be adopted.

It would not have been so in Richelieu's time.

The red cardinal would not have lost a moment in ordering him to march into Flanders, thinking only of the good of France, and disregarding the fact that continued successes might lead to his own power being shaken." "And you do not think that Mazarin will act in the same way ?" "I think not.