"Ah, you gentlemen of policy!" replied the cardinal, knitting his brow in his turn, "the secret of many unknown things might perhaps be found in your brains, if we could read them as you read that letter which you concealed as soon as you saw me coming."
--„O, heeren staatkundigen!” hernam de kardinaal op zijn beurt de wenkbrauwen fronsende, „men zou misschien in uw hersenen het geheim van vele dingen vinden, indien men er in lezen kon als in dien brief, welken gij verborgt, toen gij mij zaagt naderen.”