“Monsieur, in my grocery business I use much printed paper, and that instructs me.”

“Bravo! You know then, in that case — for you have not learnt mathematics and philosophy without a little history — that after this Cromwell so great, there came one who was very little.”

“Yes; he was named Richard, and he as done as you have, M. d’Artagnan — he has tendered his resignation.”

“Very well said — very well! After the great man who is dead, after the little one who tendered his resignation, there came a third. This one is named Monk; he is an able general, considering he has never fought a battle; he is a skillful diplomatist, considering that he never speaks in public, and that having to say