'He never came near enough for that: and I always thought your Majesty was only appearing to respect him, in order that we might have more confidence in him, and that you might give him the better slap some day, with interest for all arrears.' KING.

"'Do you know who taught me the little I know?
It was your old Marshal Traun: that was a man, that one .-- You spoke of the French: do they make progress ?' EGO.

"'They are capable of everything in time of war, Sire: but in Peace,--their chiefs want them to be what they are not, what they are not capable of being.' KING.

"'How, then; disciplined?
They were so in the time of M.de Turenne.' EGO.

"'Oh, it isn't that.