“I know there are guards in every gallery, bolts to every door, cannon and soldiery at every barrier. How will you overcome the sentries — spike the guns? How will you break through the bolts and bars?”

“Monseigneur, — how did you get the note which announced my arrival to you?”

“You can bribe a jailer for such a thing as a note.”

“If we can corrupt one turnkey, we can corrupt ten.”

“Well; I admit that it may be possible to release a poor captive from the Bastile; possible so to conceal him that the king’s people shall not again ensnare him; possible, in some unknown retreat, to sustain the unhappy wretch in some suitable manner.”