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"What is it?" asked Mazarin, "and why do you disturb me?" "The Theatin father, your eminence's director, was sent for this evening; and he cannot come again to my lord till after to-morrow." Mazarin looked at Colbert, who rose and took his hat saying: "I shall come again, my lord." Mazarin hesitated. "No, no," said he; "I have as much business to transact with you as with him.
I was then something of a soldier, and I threw myself at Casal into the arquebuscades, to show that I rode on horseback as well as an officer. It is true, I restored peace between the French and the Spaniards. That redeems my sin a little." "I see no sin in being able to ride well on horseback," said the Theatin; "that is in perfect good taste, and does honor to our gown.
To be in a place where there are greedy, famished, and hunger-starved devils; amongst factious devils amidst trading and trafficking devils O the Lord preserve me! Get you hence! I dare pawn my credit on it, that no Jacobin, Cordelier, Carmelite, Capuchin, Theatin, or Minim will bestow any personal presence at his interment.
From the time that I threw myself in that manner between two armies, that I had smelt powder and faced lines of soldiers, I have held generals a little in contempt." "Ah!" said the father. "There is the evil; so that I have not found one endurable since that time." "The fact is," said the Theatin, "that the generals we have had have not been remarkable."
Against whom, however, did the Theatin make out that you had committed these wrongs? Against the king?" Mazarin shrugged his shoulders. "As if I had not saved both his state and his finances." "That admits of no contradiction, my lord." "Does it? Then I have received a merely legitimate salary, in spite of the opinion of my confessor?" "That is beyond doubt."
The cardinal had, as we have said, great faith in the predictions of his secretary; but the sum was a large one, and whatever might be the genius of Colbert, from time to time the cardinal thought to himself that the Theatin also might possibly have been mistaken, and that there was at least as much chance of his not being damned, as there was of Louis XIV. sending back his millions.
"I have searched as well as possible." "Then I shall assist your memory." "Do." The Theatin coughed several times. "You have said nothing of avarice, another capital sin, nor of those millions," said he. "What millions, father?" "Why, those you possess, my lord." "Father, that money is mine, why should I speak to you about that?" "Because, see you, our opinions differ.
"A Theatin, monseigneur, is a bad judge in matters of finance," replied Colbert, coolly. "And yet it is very possible that, according to his theological views, your eminence has been, in a certain degree, in the wrong. People generally find they have been so, when they die." "In the first place, they commit the wrong of dying, Colbert." "That is true, my lord.
Give me absolution, and my soul will be able, when God shall please to call it, to mount without obstacle to the throne " The Theatin moved neither his arms nor his lips. "What are you waiting for, father?" said Mazarin. "I am waiting for the end." "The end of what?" "Of the confession, monsieur." "But I have ended." "Oh, no; your eminence is mistaken." "Not that I know of." "Search diligently."
"My lord," interrupted he, "I think it would be quite as well to examine whether what the Theatin said is not a snare." "Oh! no; a snare? What for? The Theatin is an honest man." "He believed your eminence to be at death's door, because your eminence consulted him.
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