Character Sketches Of Romance Fiction And The Drama Vol 3 A Rev
Chapter 6
The foolish old marquis says, in his self-conceit:
A hundred thousand crowns for being civil To one another! Well now, that’s a thing That happens but to marquises. It shows My value in the state. The king esteems My comfort of such consequence to France, He pays me down a hundred thousand crowns, Rather than let my wife disturb my temper!