venalities."

"Two hundred gentlemen! Reflect! - that is little more than a single
company."

"Sire, there is in our family a tradition, and that is, that four men,
four French gentlemen, devoted to my father, were near saving my father,
though condemned by a parliament, guarded by an army and surrounded by a
nation."

"Then if I can procure you a million, or two hundred gentlemen, you will
be satisfied; and you will consider me your well-affectioned brother?"

"I shall consider you as my saviour; and if I recover the throne of my
father, England will be, as long as I reign it, a sister to France, as
you will have been a brother to me."

"Well, my brother," said Louis, rising, "what you hesitate to ask for, I
will myself demand; that which I have never done on my own account, I
will do on yours. I will go and find the king of France - the other -
the rich, the powerful one, I mean. I will myself solicit this million,
or these two hundred gentlemen; and - we will see."

"Oh!" cried Charles; "you are a noble friend, sire - a heart created by
God! You save me, my brother; and if you should ever stand in need of
the life you restored me, demand it."

"Silence, my brother, - silence!" said Louis, in a suppressed voice.
"Take care that no one hears you! We have not obtained our end yet. To
ask money of Mazarin - that is worse than traversing the enchanted