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A Gentleman of France

CHAPTER XVI
10/27

'It is what everyone wants--when they do not want big ones.

Still, I suppose,' he continued, taking up a comfit-box, which lay beside him, and opening it, 'if you do not get what you want for him you will sulk like the rest, my friend.' 'Your Majesty has never had cause to complain of me,' quoth the Marquis, forgetting his role, or too proud to play it.
'Tut, tut, tut, tut! Take it, and trouble me no more,' the king rejoined.

'Will pay for twenty men do for him?
Very well then.

There, M.de Marsac,' he continued, nodding at me and yawning, 'your request is granted.

You will find some other pretty baggages over there.


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