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Monseigneur had one truly noble idea of general public business,

which was, to let everything go on in its own way; of particular

public business, Monseigneur had the other truly noble idea that

it must all go his way--tend to his own power and pocket. Of his

pleasures, general and particular, Monseigneur had the other

truly noble idea, that the world was made for them. The text of

his order (altered from the original by only a pronoun, which is

not much) ran: "The earth and the fulness thereof are mine, saith

Monseigneur."