M.le Cardinal will have it so.

He has exiled his nieces to Brouage." "He!--the hypocrite!" "Hush!" said Louise, pressing a finger on her friend's rosy lips.
"Bah! nobody can hear me.

I say that old Mazarino Mazarini is a hypocrite, who burns impatiently to make his niece Queen of France." "That cannot be, mademoiselle, since M.le Cardinal, on the contrary, has brought about the marriage of his majesty with the Infanta Maria Theresa." Montalais looked Raoul full in the face, and said, "And do you Parisians believe in these tales?
Well! we are a little more knowing than you, at Blois." "Mademoiselle, if the king goes beyond Poitiers and sets out for Spain, if the articles of the marriage contract are agreed upon by Don Luis de Haro and his eminence, you must plainly perceive that it is not child's play." "All very fine! but the king is king, I suppose ?" "No doubt, mademoiselle; but the cardinal is the cardinal." "The king is not a man, then! And he does not love Mary Mancini ?" "He adores her." "Well, he will marry her then.

We shall have war with Spain.

M.Mazarin will spend a few of the millions he has put away; our gentlemen will perform prodigies of valor in their encounters with the proud Castilians, and many of them will return crowned with laurels, to be recrowned by us with myrtles.