Of course the king, who not only will be more jealous, but still more powerful than all the rest put together.

Ah, my dear!" "Well ?" "Into what a wasp's nest you have thrust yourself!" "And as yet not quite far enough, if you will follow me into it." "Most certainly I will follow you where you like.

Yet--" "Well, yet--" "While we have time enough left, I think it will be more prudent to turn back." "But I, on the contrary, think the most prudent course to take is to put ourselves at once at the head of all these intrigues." "You will never be able to do it." "With you, I could carry on ten of them.

I am in my element, you must know.

I was born to live at the court, as the salamander is made to live in the fire." "Your comparison does not reassure me in the slightest degree in the world, my dear Montalais.