I would not henceforth attack a cat, except to defend myself.' ["These are his very words," adds D'Arget;--and well worth noting.] (Ambition (GLOIRE) and my interests were the occasion of my first Campaigns.
The late Kaiser's situation, and my zeal for France [not to mention interests again], gave rise to these second: and I have been fighting always since for my own hearths,--for my very existence, I might say! Once more, I know the state I had got into:--if I saw Prince Karl at the gates of Paris, I would not stir.'-- 'And us at the gates of Vienna,' answered I promptly, 'with the same indifference ?'--'Yes; and I swear it to you, D'Arget.

In a word, I want to have some good of my life (VEUX JOUIR).

What are we, poor human atoms, to get up projects that cost so much blood?
Let us live, and help to live.' "The rest of the conversation passed in general talk, about Literature, Theatres and such objects.

My reasonings and objectings, on the great matter, I need not farther detail: by the frank discourse his Prussian Majesty was kind enough to go into, you may gather perhaps that my arguments were various, and not ill-chosen;--and it is too evident they have all been in vain."-- Your Excellency's (really in a very faithful way)-- D'ARGET.

[Valori, i.