"We shall both wind up in the Bastille or Vincennes at this rate," said he.

"You must know that it is in serving the country that he has made these enemies.

It is but five years since he made a peace at Nimeguen, by which he tore away sixteen fortresses from the Spanish Lowlands.

Then, also, he had laid his hands upon Strassburg and upon Luxembourg, and has chastised the Genoans, so that there are many who would fall upon him if they thought that he was weak." "And why has he done all this ?" "Because he is a great king, and for the glory of France." The stranger pondered over this answer for some time as they rode on between the high, thin poplars, which threw bars across the sunlit road.
"There was a great man in Schenectady once," said he at last.

"They are simple folk up yonder, and they all had great trust in each other.