-Well, the day before yesterday, the Queen asked me twenty thousand pounds for rassortiment a string of pearls, rassortiment she did at home.

Lopez laughed, and laughing teeth showed he could pass for pearls.

-What are you laughing? asked the king.

Sire, do I speak to you as I speak to the cardinal?

-Absolutely.

-Well, there in the report that I was now His Eminence a paragraph on this string of pearls, or rather its consequences.

-Readme that paragraph.

-I am the king’s orders, but your majesty would not understand anything I read unless I gave him some preparatory explanations.

-Give.

-On 22 December, S. Mr. Queen appeared, indeed, my home, under the pretext of rassortir a string of pearls.