Part 63 (1/2)
”Is it absolutely necessary?”
”Your signature at the foot of that letter is worth a ned
”Now, by whom do you intend to send this letter?” asked Aramis
”By an excellent servant of mine”
”Can you rely on him?”
”He is a man who has been with me all my life”
”Very well Besides, in this case, we are not playing for very heavy stakes”
”How so? For if what you say be true of the acco and Madaive her all thehas money, then?” asked Aramis
”I suppose so, for he has not asked me for any more”
”Be easy, he will ask for soht he would have spoken to me about the fete at Vaux, but he never said a word about it”
”He will be sure to do so, though”
”You 's disposition a very cruel one, Monsieur d'Herblay”
”It is not he who is so”
”He is young, and therefore his disposition is a kind one”
”He is young, and either he is weak, or his passions are strong; and Monsieur Colbert holds his weakness and his passions in his villainous grasp”
”You admit that you fear him?”
”I do not deny it”
”I that case I am lost”
”Why so?”
”My only influence with the king has been through the money I commanded, and now I am a ruined man”
”Not so”
”What do you mean by 'not so?' Do you know my affairs better than myself?”
”That is not unlikely”
”If he were to request this fete to be given?”
”You would give it, of course”
”But where is the money to come from?”
”Have you ever been in want of any?”
”Oh! if you only knehat a cost I procured the last supply”
”The next shall cost you nothing”
”But ill give it ive me six millions?”
”Ten, if necessary”
”Upon my word, D'Herblay,” said Fouquet, ”your confidence alar's displeasure Who can you possibly be, after all?”
”You knoell enough, I should think”
”Of course; but what is it you are ai at?”
”I wish to see upon the throne of France a king devoted to Monsieur Fouquet, and I wish Monsieur Fouquet to be devoted tohis hand,-”as for being devoted to you, I am yours, entirely; but believeyourself”
”In what respect?”
”The king will never become devoted toLouis would ever become devoted to you”
”Why, on the contrary, you have this ”
”Is it not all the saether different”
”I do not understand you”
”You will do so, shortly, then; suppose, for instance, the king in question were to be a very different person to Louis XIV”
”Another person”