But it did not last when I said:] If the Kaiser were Patriarch of the Catholics, that too wouldn't be a bad place.' KING.

"'There, there: Europe divided into Three Patriarchates.

I was wrong to begin; you see where that leads us: Messieurs, our dreams are not those of the just, as M.le Regent used to say.

If Louis XIV.

were alive, he would thank us.' "All these patriarchal ideas, possible and impossible to realize, made him, for an instant, look thoughtful, almost moody.
KING.