I shall have made one human being happy; and Heaven for that will hold me in better account than if I had made one man powerful; the former task is far more difficult.

And now, monseigneur, your answer to this proposition?
Here is the money.

Nay, do not hesitate.

At Poitou, you can risk nothing, except the chance of catching the fevers prevalent there; and even of them, the so-called wizards of the country will cure you, for the sake of your pistoles.

If you play the other game, you run the chance of being assassinated on a throne, strangled in a prison-cell.