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"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?"
After supper, we examined the house, but found no one in it. The next day Gertrude went out, and from her I learned that we were at the end of the Rue St. Antoine, near the Bastile. That evening, as we were sitting down to supper, some one knocked. I grew pale. "'If it be the count? asked Gertrude. 'You must open to him; he has kept his promises, and I must keep mine. A moment after he entered.
'Beware of fire near the powder magazine; or, 'Look close after such and such a one, who is clever at escaping, Ah! if you only knew, monseigneur, how many times I have been suddenly awakened from the very sweetest, deepest slumber, by messengers arriving at full gallop to tell me, or rather, bring me a slip of paper containing these words: 'Monsieur de Baisemeaux, what news? 'Tis clear enough that those who waste their time writing such orders have never slept in the Bastile.
But, unfortunately, though my family all died early, no two members, selected the same mode of escape from this bastile of clay; and my flesh is sound, and I am as strong and compact as that granite balustrade, and ha! ha! quite as hard.
"Your majesty does me a great injustice, sire; and you are wrong," replied Fouquet, dryly; "I am not child enough, nor is M. d'Herblay silly enough, to have omitted to make all these reflections; and if I had wished to make a new king, as you say, I had no occasion to have come here to force open the gates and doors of the Bastile, to free you from this place.
The commissaries of police ran about the city, knocked at the doors, and called the people up to illuminate. In an hour streets, quays and bridges were in a blaze: drums were beating and trumpets sounding: the bells of Notre Dame were ringing; peals of cannon were resounding from the batteries of the Bastile.
Like wild beasts, bearing these spoils of the head as trophies of victory, the band of assassins rushed down the Rue de Sicile to carry terror to the heart of Paris. It was nearly noon when Coursegol and Dolores, having passed the Bastile, entered the Rue Saint Antoine to find a dense crowd of men, women and ragged children yelling at one another and singing coarse songs.
"You told me only this morning that the thing was up, and that we should soon be slaves for life; working sixteen hours a day for no wages, and living on oatmeal porridge and potatoes, served out by the millocrats like a regular Bastile." "But, as Madam Carey says, when things are at the worst " "Oh!
And the carriage, lightened of a prisoner, who might well be as he in fact was very heavy in the sight of Aramis, passed across the drawbridge of the Bastile, which was raised again immediately behind it. Pain, anguish, and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.
Each woman became her own Bastile. Men surrounded it and thundered against it without the least effect. It seemed as permanent as the Pyramids. At every male attack it expanded, and became more aggressive and took up more room. Women have such an exquisite sense of things just as they have now in regard to big obstructive hats in the theatres.
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