"He is a young man beside himself with grief," they said, "and it is his own father's case." "Young he is not," replied the king; "he is forty years old, twenty in age and twenty from his father's teaching." The king's own circle and his most distinguished servants gladly joined in his self-congratulation.

"Well," he said to Sully, "what think you of your pope ?" "I think, sir," answered Sully, "that he is more pope than you suppose; cannot you see that he gives a red hat to M.d'Evreux?
Really, I never saw a man so dumbfounded, or one who defended himself so ill.

If our religion had no better foundation than his crosswise legs and arms (Mornay habitually kept them so), I would abandon it rather to-day than to-morrow." [_OEconomies royales,_ t.iii.

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346.] Sully desired nothing better than to find Mornay at fault, and to see the king fully convinced of it.