29/37 No, no! There is small pleasure in praying all day and fighting all night. Paris is plenty for me." Yet there was something in the young man's face which spoke of fear, a nervous look such as one wears when caught in the toils of secret dread. What kind of money-chest does this Mazarin possess that, engulfing all the revenues of France, the gold never reaches high enough to be taken out again ?" "With all his faults, Mazarin is a great minister. He is a better financier than Richelieu was. |