Every day come advices that they are intriguing there to ruin him.

France and Spain, so to speak, have conspired against him alone.

What countenance was kept amidst all this by the man who they said would be dumbfounded at the least ill-success, and who had caused Le Havre to be fortified in order to throw himself into it at the first misfortune?
He did not make a single step backward all the same.

He thought of the perils of the state, and not of his own; and the only change observed in him all through was that, whereas he had not been wont to go out but with an escort of two hundred guards, he walked about, every day, attended by merely five or six gentlemen.

It must be owned that adversity borne with so good a grace and such force of character is worth more than a great deal of prosperity and victory.