Ordinarily the marquis would have listened with secret pleasure to this equivocal pastime; but somehow it was at this moment distasteful to his ears.
"My faith! but these Jesuits have cast a peculiar melancholy over me; this frog's blood of mine would warm to generous impulses!.

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I wonder where I have seen that younger fanatic ?" The marquis mused a while, but the riddle remained elusive and unexplained.

He struck the bell to summon Jehan.