He seeks Sibylla and that crown, and is like to get them.' 'I think not, John, I think not.

We will fill his head with other thoughts; we will set it wanting mine.

Your chance is a fair one yet, brother.' Prince John laughed, but not comfortably.

'Your tongue bites, Richard.' 'Pooh,' says Richard, 'what else are you worth?
I save my teeth'; and went his ways.
In Paris Richard repaired to the tower of his kinsman the Count of Angoulesme, but his brother to the Abbey of Saint-Germain.

The Poictevin herald bore word to King Philip-Augustus on Richard's part; Prince John, as I suppose, bore his own word whither he had most need for it to go.
It is believed that he contrived to see Madame Alois in private; and if that great purple cape that held him in talk for nearly an hour by a windy corner of the Pre-aux-Clercs did not cover the back of Montferrat, then Gossip is a liar, Richard, for his part, took no account of John and his shifts; a wave of disgust for the creeping youth had filled the stronger man, and having got him into Paris there seemed nothing better to do with him than to let him alone.