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"So long," pursued the Englishman, placidly, "as the trains start punctually, and there is not actually grape-shot in the streets, and one may count upon one's dinner at the hour, one form of government in this country seems to me to be as good as another, Monsieur le Ministre. A Bourbon Monarchy or an Orleans Monarchy, or a Republic, or well, an Empire, Monsieur le Ministre."
"I beg you to be seated," said the Minister. "We are entirely alone, and nothing you say will be heard by any one but myself." "I thank you, Monsieur le Ministre," replied the inventor, "for this mark of confidence; for I am afraid the claims I made in the letter were so extraordinary that you might well have hesitated about granting me an interview." The Minister smiled.
The Governor, stiff at ordinary times, but pliant at a crisis, welcomed the firmer mind that decided for him, consented that the troops should return, and wrote afterwards in his despatch to the Minister: "I was much charmed to find M. de Lévis disposed to march with the army towards Quebec." [Footnote 801: Bigot au Ministre, 15 Oct. 1759. Malartic
It was, however, the usual gap in the genius of great detectives. "Pray what do you desire of me, Monsieur le Ministre?" said Pierre at last; "I don't quite understand." "Why, Monsieur l'Abbe, I leave all this to your sense of prudence.
On the quarrel about the presidency, Duchesneau au Ministre, 10 Nov., 1679; Auteuil au Ministre, 10 Aug., 1679; Contestations entre le Sieur Comte de Frontenac et M. Duchesneau, Chevalier. This, one would think, might have sufficed to bring the governor to reason, but the violence of his resentments and antipathies overcame the very slender share of prudence with which nature had endowed him.
He scarcely spoke. He felt that he was watched and listened to. The valet who passed him the dishes watched over Monsieur le Ministre. He imagined that his attendants in their silent reflections compared the present minister with those that had gone before him.
She surmised everything and interrupted Sulpice even before he could have spoken and, with a sort of false respect, displayed before Rosas the friendship which Monsieur le Ministre desired to show her and of which she was proud. "By the way, my dear minister, as to your appointment as President of the Council?" Vaudrey knit his brows. "That is so! I ask your pardon. I am betraying a state secret.
No. 42. L'Ambassadeur en Angleterre au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Londres, le 14/17 Juillet 1914.
No. 68. L'Ambassadeur en Allemagne au Ministre des Affaires Etrangères. Berlin, le 18/31 Juillet 1914.
Brébeuf, the poet, who had neither influence nor money, took to his bed and died of grief. Hesnault, author of the "Avorton," a sonnet much admired in those days, and translated with approval into English verse, as, "Frail spawn of nought and of existence mixed," eased his feelings by insulting Colbert in another sonnet, beginning thus: "Ministre avare et lâche, esclave malheureux."
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