Ten Years Later: The Man in The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 6 Page 25

“my friend?”

“From Paris — from Percerin.”

“And what have you been doing at Percerin’s, for I suppose you attach no great importance to our poets’ dresses?”

“No; I went to prepare a surprise.”

“Surprise?”

“Yes; which you are going to give to the king.”

“And will it cost much?”

“Oh!

a hundred pistoles you will give Lebrun.”

“A painting? — Ah! all the better! And what is this painting to represent?”