Besides, Mazarin is evidently disposed to regard you with special favour, and an occasional visit keeps that feeling alive, whereas it naturally cools down after a prolonged absence.

Therefore in every respect it is as well that you should show yourself in Paris for a short time before going down to Poitou, where I hear there have been some troublesome risings of the peasantry.

The province, being broken and hilly for the most part, offers considerable advantages to irregular forces, who move unencumbered with baggage, and against whom cavalry cannot well act.
I do not know that any of these troubles have occurred in the neighbourhood of your estate, but you would naturally wish to see for yourself how matters are going on." "It seems more than two years since we left here, master," Paolo said, as they rode into Paris.
"It does indeed.

It is more than six years now since I first rode away with Turenne, and a month later you entered my service.

We have gone through a good deal together since those days, Paolo." "Yes, indeed, sir.