“I have.”
“That of St. Medard at Soissons, with a revenue of one hundred thousand livres?”
“I cannot deny it.”
“That of St. Victor, at Marseilles, — one of the best in the south?”
“Yes father.”
“A good million a year. With the emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year.”
“Eh!”
“In ten years that is twenty millions — and twenty millions put out at fifty per cent. give, by progression, twenty-three millions in ten years.”
“How well you reckon for a Theatin!”