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"Granted; but if you please, let us not theologize, Aramis. You must have had enough for today. As for me, I have almost forgotten the little Latin I have ever known. Then I confess to you that I have eaten nothing since ten o'clock this morning, and I am devilish hungry." "We will dine directly, my friend; only you must please to remember that this is Friday.
D'Artagnan held the bridle of Athos' horse, and Porthos that of Aramis, and they led their prisoners off the field. "We are all four lost if you give the least sign you know us," said D'Artagnan. "The king where is the king?" Athos exclaimed anxiously. "Ah! We have got him!" "Yes," said Aramis; "through a base act of treachery!"
He, at first, thought of talking the matter over with Colbert, but his friendship for Aramis, the oath of earlier days, bound him too strictly. He revolted at the bare idea of such a thing, and, besides, he hated the financier too cordially.
Aramis, on entering the chamber did not hesitate an instant; and without pronouncing one word, which, whatever it might be, would have been cold on such an occasion, he went straight up to the musketeer, so well disguised under the costume of M. Agnan, and pressed him in his arms with a tenderness which the most distrustful could not have suspected of coldness or affectation.
"Now," continued Aramis, taking the same graceful position in his easy chair that he would have assumed in bed, and complacently examining his hand, which was as white and plump as that of a woman, and which he held in the air to cause the blood to descend, "now, as you have heard, d'Artagnan, Monsieur the Principal is desirous that my thesis should be dogmatic, while I, for my part, would rather it should be ideal.
"Twenty-five pistoles," said d'Artagnan. "And I," said Athos, taking some small change from his pocket, "I " "You? Nothing!" "My faith! So little that it is not worth reckoning with the general stock." "Now, then, let us calculate how much we posses in all." "Porthos?" "Thirty crowns." "Aramis?" "Ten pistoles." "And you, d'Artagnan?" "Twenty-five." "That makes in all?" said Athos.
I should not be astonished if he were, for he seems to be on very good terms with the dryads of Fontainebleau." "Never mind," said Fouquet; "let us get there. If he is not aware of it, we shall see what he will do if he should know it, as it has two entrances, so that whilst he enters by one, we can leave by the other." "Is it far?" asked Aramis, "for the rain is beginning to penetrate."
The prisoner had not stirred; Baisemeaux then entered, while Aramis remained at the threshold, from which place he saw a youth about eighteen years of age, who, raising his head at the unusual noise, jumped off the bed, as he perceived the governor, and clasping his hands together, began to cry out, "My mother, my mother," in tones which betrayed such deep distress that Aramis, despite his command over himself, felt a shudder pass through his frame.
It was evident that Aramis had asked himself this question: "Why is D'Artagnan with Porthos, and what does he want at Vannes?" Aramis comprehended all that was passing in the mind of D'Artagnan, on turning his look upon him again, and seeing that he had not lowered his eyes.
"You will have a patient prisoner, monsieur," said Athos, in his calm, soft voice. "A prisoner, too, who will not remain a month with you, my dear governor," said Aramis; while Baisemeaux, still holding the order in his hand, transcribed it upon the prison registry.
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