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Athos's face was very pale, his head uncovered, and his manner full of seriousness; he gave his cloak and hat to the lackey, dismissed him with a gesture, and sat down near Raoul. "Well, monsieur," inquired the young man, "are you convinced yet?" "I am, Raoul; the king loves Mademoiselle de la Valliere." "He confesses it, then?" cried Raoul. "Yes," replied Athos. "And she?" "I have not seen her."
Athos and his friends, again mingling with the throng, were taking a last look at the martyr king. When the soldier saluted Charles, Athos's heart bounded for joy; and that unfortunate, on coming to himself, found ten guineas that the French gentleman had slipped into his pocket. But when the cowardly insulter spat in the face of the captive monarch Athos grasped his dagger.
Raoul picked it up, and continued to read aloud: "Make haste. His majesty is very anxious to speak to you, and expects you at the Louvre." "Expects me?" again repeated the musketeer. "He, he, he!" laughed Raoul. "Oh, oh!" replied D'Artagnan. "What the devil can this mean?" The King The first moment of surprise over, D'Artagnan reperused Athos's note.
"Sire!" said Athos, opening a casket, from which he drew both gold and jewels, "you see, sire, we are too rich. Fortunately, there are four of us, in the event of our meeting with thieves." Joy made the blood rush to the pale cheeks of Charles II., as he saw Athos's two horses, led by Grimaud, already booted for the journey, advance towards the porch.
The order, or rather license, for their embarkation, arrived at Athos's lodgings that evening. While this paper was remitted to the comte, another messenger brought to D'Artagnan a little bundle of parchments, adorned with all the seals employed in setting off property deeds in England.
"Where are we going?" inquired Aramis; "are we going to fight, perchance? I carry no sword this morning and cannot return home to procure one." "No," said Lord de Winter, "we are going to pay a visit to Her Majesty the Queen of England." "Oh, very well," replied Aramis; then bending his face down to Athos's ear, "what is the object of this visit?" continued he.
He clearly saw it was not mere chance that had induced the comte's visit, he had some vague impression of its importance; but he felt that to a man of Athos's tone of mind, to one of such a high order of intellect, his first reception ought not to present anything either disagreeable or otherwise than kind and courteous.
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