But in serving me, as you have lately done at Berlin, you can win credit and repute." "Monseigneur is very good." "You displayed genius in that late affair at Gondreville." "To what does Monseigneur allude ?" said Corentin, with a manner that was neither too reserved nor too surprised.
"Ah, Monsieur!" observed the minister, dryly, "you will never make a successful man; you fear--" "What, monseigneur ?" "Death!" replied Talleyrand, in his fine, deep voice.

"Adieu, my good friend." "That is the man," said the Marquis de Chargeboeuf entering the room after Corentin was dismissed; "but we have nearly killed the countess." "He is the only man I know capable of playing such a trick," replied the minister.

"Monsieur le marquis, you are in danger of not succeeding in your mission.

Start ostensibly for Strasburg; I'll send you double passports in blank to be filled out.

Provide yourself with substitutes; change your route and above all your carriage; let your substitutes go on to Strasburg, and do you reach Prussia through Switzerland and Bavaria.