Your majesty can also slip in a few words about certain pamphlets which are being circulated." "Never! Pamphlets befoul those who write them much more than those against whom they are written.

M.Colbert, I thank you.

You can leave now.

Do not forget the hour I have fixed, and be there yourself." "Sire, I await your majesty's list." "True," returned the king; and he began to meditate; he had not thought of the list in the least.

The clock struck half-past eleven.