M.de Vilmorin found it exasperating that his friend should apparently decline to share his own indignation.
"Don't you see what it means ?" he cried.

"The nobles, by disobeying the King, are striking at the very foundations of the throne.

Don't they perceive that their very existence depends upon it; that if the throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed?
Don't they see that ?" "Evidently not.

They are just governing classes, and I never heard of governing classes that had eyes for anything but their own profit." "That is our grievance.

That is what we are going to change." "You are going to abolish governing classes?
An interesting experiment.
I believe it was the original plan of creation, and it might have succeeded but for Cain." "What we are going to do," said M.de Vilmorin, curbing his exasperation, "is to transfer the government to other hands." "And you think that will make a difference ?" "I know it will." "Ah! I take it that being now in minor orders, you already possess the confidence of the Almighty.