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"I am not very nervous on that point, my dear friend; because, once reconciled with Anne of Austria, I will undertake that France would insist upon M. Laicques's liberation." "True. In that case, you will have something else to apprehend." "What can that be?" said the duchesse, pretending to be surprised and terrified.
"The suppression of your pension " "Forty-eight thousand francs, and that of Laicques's twelve, make together sixty thousand francs; that is what you mean, I suppose?" "Precisely; and I was trying to find out what would be your equivalent for that." "Five hundred thousand francs, which I shall get from the queen." "Or, which you will not get."
"Duchesse, I tell you why; supposing the five hundred thousand francs were to be given you, M. Laicques will require his share, which will be another five hundred thousand francs, I presume? and then, after M. de Laicques's and your own portions have been arranged, the portions which your children, your poor pensioners, and various other persons will require, will start up as fresh claims, and these letters, however compromising they may be in their nature, are not worth from three to four millions.
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