:53:02
Monsieur wants you
for his friend.
:53:06
He admires, well... to speak quite
frankly, everything about you.
:53:12
So, what he wants
from you is...
:53:16
everything.
:53:26
-Do I hear you right?
-What do you hear?
:53:28
That monsieur has sent you
to ask me to join a long line...
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of stable boys and Princes
whom he has honored so... intimately.
:53:36
Yes, your hearing is very good.
:53:38
Tell Monsieur...
:53:41
and I quote Descartes
whom I once knew...
:53:44
''There is no soul so weak
that it cannot...
:53:47
acquire an absolute power
over the passions.''
:53:51
Monsieur is not a Cartesian,
as far as is known.
:53:55
He only wants a few moments
of your time.
:53:58
Then I send him a message
which reveals more of me...
:54:03
than he would ever see
if I were to submit. Tell him...
:54:08
that both of us live
with a terrible thing.
:54:11
The desire for the absolute.
:54:14
The sublime. The perfect.
:54:21
That 's why he flits
from person to person...
:54:25
and that 's why
I give myself to no one.
:54:29
And the Prince?
:54:31
How long do you think it will take
before this reaches the Prince?
:54:34
Not long, if you hurry.
:54:37
My dear Vatel.
:54:40
We all go round together
like a celestial machine.
:54:43
The Sun King is at the center.
:54:45
Condé is one of his planets
and I am Condé's moon.
:54:48
Do you think there's a place
to stand when we are free?
:54:51
Naturally I will speak to Condé.
:54:54
Not to do so would be...
:54:56
self-important.