Marguerite of Valois is, indeed, a very big fish compared with the Prince of Bearn; and it is not only she who would pull, but there are others, and even bigger fish, who would pull with her.

My good mother has fears that, if I once tasted the gaieties of the court of France, I should be ruined, body and soul.
"Now I have rather an inclination for the said gaieties, and that prospect does not terrify me as it does her.

But there are things which alarm me, more than gaieties.

There is the king who, except when he occasionally gets into a rage, and takes his own course, is but a tool in the hands of Catharine de Medici.

There is Anjou, who made a jest of the dead body of my uncle Conde.