I have done with that fool Monmouth, and the French King would suit me well for a master." "Then ask him to take you also." "He will not; he'll rather take you." "Then I'll go," said I.
He drew a step nearer to me.

I watched him closely, for, on my life, I did not know in what mood he was, and his honour was ill to lean on as a waving reed.
"What will you gain by going ?" he asked.

"And if you fly he will take me.

Somebody he must take." "Is not M.Colbert enough ?" He looked at me suspiciously, as though he thought that I assumed ignorance.
"You know very well that Colbert wouldn't serve his purpose." "By my faith," I cried, "I don't know what his purpose is." "You swear it ?" he asked in distrust and amazement.
"Most willingly," I answered.

"It is simple truth." He gazed at me still as though but half-convinced.
"Then what's your purpose in going ?" he asked.
"I obey my orders.