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But first of all, let us show we are hospitable. Make my apologies, La Fontaine, to M. Vanel, and tell him how distressed I am to have kept him waiting, but that I was not was not aware he was there."
"I am quite aware of that, since he made it a point to succeed me with Madame Vanel." "And obtained his end; look at that." "Do you mean to say he has the presumption to pass from intendant to superintendent?" "Have you not yourself already had the same fear?" "Oh! oh!" said Fouquet, "to succeed with Madame Vanel is one thing, to succeed me with the king is another.
"I beg your pardon," said Conrart, "you yourself spoke about it, even " "Yes, I am a witness to that," said Gourville. "He seems very tenacious about his brilliant idea," said Fouquet, laughing. "Well, La Fontaine, who is the purchaser?" "A perfect blackbird, for he is a counselor belonging to the parliament, an excellent fellow." "What is his name?" "Vanel." "Vanel!" exclaimed Fouquet.
"Very well," replied Aramis, who had grasped Vanel so tightly by the coat that, when he let go his hold, Vanel staggered back a few paces, "very well; one can now see clearly enough your object in coming here." "Yes," said Fouquet, "one can easily see that." "But " said Vanel, attempting to stand erect before the weakness of these two men of honor.
"Perfectly true," said Vanel, whose secret Aramis had, with keen-sighted gaze, wrung from the bottom of his heart. "Inconveniences such as these are matters of great expense and calculation, and whenever a man has money matters to deal with, the expenses are generally the very first thing thought of." "Yes, yes," said Fouquet, who began to understand Aramis's meaning.
Conrart is always telling me that I do not know how to conduct matters of business; you will see how I managed this one." "Well, go on." "'I suppose you know, said I to Vanel, 'that the value of a post such as that which M. Fouquet holds is by no means trifling. "'How much do you imagine it to be? he said. "'M. Fouquet, I know, has refused seventeen hundred thousand francs.
Fouquet turned his eyes from the gaze of Aramis, and then desired that M. Vanel should be shown in. Vanel, who entered at this stage of the conversation, was nothing less for Aramis and Fouquet than the full stop which completes a phrase.
M. Fouquet's post of procureur-general?" "So it is said." "The post which renders him so perfectly invincible, for sale! Ha, ha!" said Vanel, beginning to laugh. "Would you be afraid, then, of the post?" said Colbert, gravely. "Afraid! no; but " "Are you desirous of obtaining it?" "You are laughing at me, monseigneur," replied Vanel.
As he was pitying this man's lot, Vanel coldly drew from his pocket a perfumed letter, sealed with Spanish wax, and held it towards Colbert, saying, "A letter from my wife, monseigneur." Colbert coughed, took, opened and read the letter, and then put it carefully away in his pocket, while Vanel turned over the leaves of the papers he had brought with him with an unmoved and unconcerned air.
"Do you think the king has given, without pressing motive, such a place to one you call a little cuistre?" "In the first place, is it positively true that the king has given it to him?" "It is so said." "Ay, but who says so?" "Everybody." "Everybody, that's nobody; mention some one likely to be well informed who says so." "Madame Vanel."
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