Ten Years Later: The Man in The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 15 Page 7

“Humiliation.”

“Humiliation? oh! sire, what a word for you to use!”

“I mean, mademoiselle, that wherever I may happen to be, no one else ought to be the master.

Well, then, look round you on every side, and judge whether I am not eclipsed — I, the king of France — before the monarch of these wide domains. Oh!” he continued, clenching his hands and teeth, “when I think that this king — ”

“Well, sire?” said Louise, terrified.

“ — That this king is a faithless, unworthy servant, who grows proud and self-sufficient upon the strength of property that belongs to me, and which he has stolen. And therefore I am about to change this impudent minister’s