Endowments

“Well, my Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just endowments, family estates of the Bonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that we will have war, if you still try to soften all the infamies, all the horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist — I really believe he is Antichrist — I will have nothing more to do with you, and you are no longer my friend, no longer my ‘faithful slave,’ as you call yourself! But how do you do? I see I have frightened you; sit down and tell me all the news.”