“Bah! Colbert, little Colbert.”
“Yes, Colbert, little Colbert.”
“Mazarin’s factotum?”
“The same.”
“Well! what do you see so terrific in that, dear marquise? little Colbert is intendant; that is astonishing I confess, but is not terrible.”
“Do you think the king has given, without pressing motive, such a place to one you call a little cuistre?”
“In the first place, is it positively true that the king has given it to him?”
“It is so said.”
“Ay, but who says so?”