"'Oh, surely;--it was to make the thing known.

If your Majesty could bring that into vogue, and sell it all, you would be the greatest King in the world.

For your Kingdom produces only that; but of that there is plenty.' "'Do you know,' said the King, one day, to me,--'Do you know that the first soldiering I did was for the House of Austria?
MON DIEU, how the time passes!'-- He had a way of slowly bringing his hands together, in ejaculating these MON-DIEUS, which gave him quite a good-natured and extremely mild air .-- (Do you know that I saw the glittering of the last rays of Prince Eugen's genius ?' EGO.

"'Perhaps it was at these rays that your Majesty's genius lit itself.' KING.

"'EH, MON DIEU! who could equal the Prince Eugen ?' EGO.