You think you have cause to be angry with me.
I cannot suffer that, for the King of Navarre had never greater need of your services than now.' 'You have played me an unworthy trick, sir,'I answered, thinking he would cozen me with fair speeches.
'Tut, tut!' he replied.

'You do not understand.' 'I understand well enough,' I answered, with bitterness, 'that, having done the King of Navarre's work, he would now be rid of me.' 'Have I not told you,' M.de Rosny replied, betraying for the first time some irritation, 'that he has greater need of your services than ever?
Come, man, be reasonable, or, better still, listen to me.' And turning from me, he began to walk up and down the room, his hands behind him.
'the King of France--I want to make it as clear to you as possible--' he said, 'cannot make head against the League without help, and, willy-nilly, must look for it to the Huguenots whom he has so long persecuted.

The King of Navarre, their acknowledged leader, has offered that help; and so, to spite my master, and prevent a combination so happy for France, has M.de Turenne, who would fain raise the faction he commands to eminence, and knows well how to make his profit out of the dissensions of his country.

Are you clear so far, sir ?' I assented.

I was becoming absorbed in spite of myself.
'Very well,' he resumed.