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The magistrate continued: "I have learned from the old deaf abbe who dined at the house of the Marechale d'Effiat, and who heard all, that this young Cinq-Mars exhibited more energy than one would have imagined, and that he attempted to rescue the Marechal de Bassompierre. I have still by me the detailed report of the deaf man, who played his part very well.
I was indignant at these mummeries, and said to him, 'Yes, Monsieur, as you mock God and men. And this, my dear friend, is the reason why you see me in my seven-league boots, so heavy that they hurt my legs, and with pistols; for our friend Laubardemont has ordered my person to be seized, and I don't choose it to be seized, old as it is." "What, is he so powerful, then?" cried Cinq-Mars.
If they bring you any luck, I shall be very much surprised." Cinq-Mars, suffering from the motion of his horse, rode only at the pace of his prisoners on foot, and was accordingly at a distance behind the red companies, who followed close upon the King. He meditated on his way what it could be that the Prince desired to say to him.
I will return with you to your house on quitting the Louvre; there I will listen to you, and thence I shall depart to continue my work, for nothing will shake my resolve, I warn you. I have just said so to the gentlemen at your house." In his accent Cinq-Mars had nothing of the brusqueness which clothed his words.
Oh, how pale he is! he seems praying. There, his head falls back, as if he were dying! Oh, take me away!" And he fell into the arms of the young Advocate, of M. du Lude, and of Cinq-Mars, who had come to support him.
And, truly enough, he subsequently wrote it in blood. At this moment, to avoid answering the King, he feigned not to have heard his question, and to be wholly intent upon the merit of Cinq-Mars and the desire to see him well placed at court. "I promised you beforehand to make him a captain in my guards," said the Prince; "let him be nominated to-morrow.
"Let me read myself," said Cinq-Mars, taking one side of the book. Old Grandchamp gravely advanced his tawny face and his gray hair to the foot of the bed to listen. His master read, stopped at the first phrase, but with a smile, perhaps slightly forced, he went on to the end. "I. Now it was in the city of Milan that they appeared. "II. The high-priest said to them, 'Bow down and adore the gods.
It is in accordance with this grand consolatory principle that I have always acted." "Go, go!" said Cinq-Mars, in a voice thick with rage; "I have other things to think of." "Of what more important?" said Fontrailles; "this might be a great weight in the balance of our destinies." "I am thinking how much the heart of a king weighs in it," said Cinq- Mars.
A melancholy revery occupied her mind; and although she had before her the spectacle of the first court of Europe at the feet of him she loved, everything inspired her with fear, and dark presentiments involuntarily agitated her. Suddenly a horse passed by her like the wind; she raised her eyes, and had just time to see the features of Cinq-Mars.
"We must think of other things now," interrupted Cinq-Mars; "a ball has just whistled past my ear. The attack has begun on all sides; and we are surrounded by friends and by enemies." In fact, the cannonading was general; the citadel, the town, and the army were covered with smoke.
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