Employ your magic, white or black, appeal to your witches' sabbath or the novenas of the Church; what care I how 'tis done, provided my line male continues ?" "I know," said Beauvouloir, "a whole chapter of sorcerers capable of destroying your hopes; they are none other than _yourself_, monseigneur.
I know you.

To-day you want male lineage at any price; to-morrow you will seek to have it on your own conditions; you will torment your son." "God preserve me from it!" "Well, then, go away from here; go to court, where the death of the marechal and the emancipation of the king must have turned everything topsy turvy, and where you certainly have business, if only to obtain the marshal's baton which was promised to you.

Leave Monseigneur Etienne to me.

But give me your word of honor as a gentleman to approve whatever I may do for him." The duke struck his hand into that of his physician as a sign of complete acceptance, and retired to his own apartments.
When the days of a high and mighty seigneur are numbered, the physician becomes a personage of importance in the household.

It is, therefore, not surprising to see a former bonesetter so familiar with the Duc d'Herouville.