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"No; how should we?" "Besides, is it certain?" Antragues drew his sword. "So certain that here is his blood," said he. "M. de Bussy assassinated!" "His blood cries for vengeance! do you not hear it, gentlemen?" said Ribeirac. "What do you mean?" "'Seek whom the crime profits, the law says," replied Ribeirac. "Ah! gentlemen, will you explain yourselves?" cried Maugiron.
"Ah! ah! it seems that the joke is a good one," said Antragues. "And so much the better, that everyone does not seem to find it a joke," said Bussy. A moment after, they heard the duke's voice calling Bussy. He went, and found the duke laughing. "Oh!" said he, "it appears that what I said was droll." "I am not laughing at what you said."
"And the three others?" "Oh! M. de Bussy has too many friends, and we too many enemies, for them to remain with folded arms. Do you agree to this, gentlemen?" "Yes!" cried all. "If MM. Ribeirac, Antragues, and Livarot would join the party, it would be complete." "Gentlemen," said St.
Arriving on the ground, they found their opponents waiting for them. "Gentlemen," said Quelus, rising and bowing, "we have had the honor of waiting for you." "Excuse us," said Antragues, "but we should have been here before you, but for one of our companions." "M. de Bussy," said D'Epernon, "I do not see him. Where is he?" "We can wait for him," said Schomberg. "He will not come."
"Antragues," said he, "on my honor, I am innocent of the death of Bussy." "Oh! I believe you, monsieur," cried Antragues, much moved. "Fly!" murmured Quelus; "the king will never forgive you." "I cannot abandon you thus, even to escape the scaffold." "Save yourself, young man," said Chicot; "do not tempt Providence twice in one day." Antragues approached Ribeirac, who still breathed.
All looked thunderstruck; but D'Epernon exclaimed: "Ah! the brave man par excellence is he, then, afraid?" "That cannot be," said Quelus. "You are right, monsieur," said Livarot. "And why will he not come?" "Because he is dead." "Dead!" cried they all, but D'Epernon turned rather pale. "And dead because he has been assassinated," said Antragues. "Did you not know it, gentlemen?"
However, as more and more bourgeois crowded to the attack, and Antragues began to feel tired, he said, "Well, you are as brave as lions; I will bear witness to it; but, you see, you have nothing left but the handles of your halberts, and you do not know how to load your muskets. I had resolved to enter the city, but I did not know it was guarded by an army of Casars.
"Certainly; but it is not the less true that he obeyed the wishes of M. d'Anjou." "Listen! I know M. de St. Luc, and I can assure you he is devoted to the king, and hates the duke. If your wound had come from Antragues, Livarot, or Ribeirac, it might be so; but not from St. Luc." "You do not know," replied Monsoreau, obstinate in his opinion. At last he was able to go down into the garden.
I renounce my victory over you. Good evening, I am going away; only tell the prince that I came here expressly to see him." However, the captain had managed to communicate the fire to the match of his musket, but just as he was raising it to his shoulder, Antragues gave him such a furious blow upon the fingers that he dropped it.
"Down with your arms, knaves," cried the duke, "these are friends." "Friends!" cried the bourgeois, "then they should have had the password; for we have been treating them like Pagans and they us like Turks." Livarot, Antragues, and Ribeirac advanced in triumph to kiss the duke's hand. "Monseigneur," said Bussy, "how many militia do you think there were here?" "At least one hundred and fifty."
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