Give me a couple of months, I want no more." "No ?" said Sarrion, looking at him with much admiration.

"Is that so ?" "Two months--and the sum of money I named." "Ah! In two months," reflected Sarrion.

"Rome, you know, was not built in a day." The General gave his cackling laugh.
"Aha! " he cried, "I see that you know all about it.

You gave me my cue--the word Rome, eh?
To see how much I know!" And the great soldier-statesman leant back in his seat again, well pleased with himself.
"I understand," he said, "that it amounts to this; the sanction of the Vatican is required to the remittance of the usual novitiate in the case of a young person who is in a great hurry to take the veil; once that is obtained the money is set at liberty and all goes merrily.

There is enough to--well, let us say--to convince my whole army corps, and my humble self.