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Updated: June 9, 2025
"The result will be that I shall go to the king, with whom I am on tolerably good terms, to whom I have been happy enough to render certain services dating from a period when you were not born, and who at my request, has just sent me an order in blank for M. Baisemeaux de Montlezun, governor of the Bastile; and I shall say to the king: 'Sire, a man has in a most cowardly way insulted M. de Bragelonne by insulting his mother; I have written this man's name upon the lettre de cachet which your majesty has been kind enough to give me, so that M. de Wardes is in the Bastile for three years." And D'Artagnan drawing the order signed by the king from his pocket, held it towards De Wardes.
"To-morrow is the first of June." "Well?" "One of our bonds becomes due." "I did not know we had any bonds." "Certainly, to-morrow we pay our last third instalment." "What third?" "Of the one hundred and fifty thousand francs to Baisemeaux." "Baisemeaux? Who is he?" "The governor of the Bastile." "Yes, I remember. On what grounds am I to pay one hundred and fifty thousand francs for that man."
D'Artagnan immediately understood him, and replied by another sign. Aramis and Baisemeaux watched this silent dialogue, and looked inquiringly at each other. Athos felt that he was called upon to give an explanation of what was passing.
"Strongly recommended, yes; strongly recommended to give him up to you; and that you carried him off with you in your carriage." "Well, my dear Monsieur de Baisemeaux, it was a mistake; it was discovered at the ministry, so that I now bring you an order from the king to set at liberty Seldon, that poor Seldon fellow, you know." "Seldon! are you sure this time?"
He paused on the staircase, snatching the bunch of keys from Baisemeaux, who thought this new madman was going to dash out his brains with one of them. "Ah!" he cried, "M. d'Herblay did not say a word about that." "Give me the keys at once!" cried Fouquet, tearing them from his hand. "Which is the key of the door I am to open?" "That one."
D'Artagnan observed that the broken seal attracted the soldier's attention a good deal, but he finished apparently by consoling himself, and returned the letter to his belt. "Go on," said D'Artagnan, "I have plenty of time before me, so you may precede me. It appears that Aramis is not in Paris, since Baisemeaux writes to Porthos.
"You will agree, dear Monsieur de Baisemeaux," continued Aramis, with the same impassibility, "that it is evident a man cannot be a member of a society, it is evident that he cannot enjoy the advantages it offers to the affiliated, without being himself bound to certain little services." "In short," stammered Baisemeaux, "that would be intelligible, if "
"Not before I have present Monsieur Baisemeaux de Montlezun, the governor of the Bastile." Baisemeaux and Athos saluted each other. "Surely you must know each other," said D'Artagnan. "I have an indistinct recollection of Monsieur Baisemeaux," said Athos. "You remember, my dear, Baisemeaux, the king's guardsman with whom we used formerly to have such delightful meetings in the cardinal's time?"
"No; understand me; when the fifteen-franc has not eaten his fowl, or the ten-franc has left his dish unfinished, I send it to the five-franc prisoner; it is a feast for the poor devil, and one must be charitable, you know." "And what do you make out of your five-franc prisoners?" "A franc and a half." "Baisemeaux, you're an honest fellow; in honest truth I say so." "Thank you, my lord.
"Very much so." "Even on the part of your society?" "What do you term my society the prisoners?" "Oh, no! your prisoners, indeed! I know well it is you who visit them, and not they you. By your society, I mean, my dear Baisemeaux, the society of which you are a member."
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