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You unraveled it yesterday to the great satisfaction of all; and while we are still gaping with wonder at the news, you come and tell us today, 'Let us say no more about it." "Well, then, let us talk about it, since you desire it," replied Aramis, patiently. "This Rochefort," cried Porthos, "if I were the esquire of poor Chalais, should pass a minute or two very uncomfortably with me."
And she returned into the church of the nuns of Sainte-Claire. An example of cruelty which might well have discouraged the friends of the Duke of Orleans "from dying a martyr's death for him" like the unhappy Chalais.
Aubert, leaning on a knotty stick, offered his arm alternately to Gerande and to Scholastique, and he made the greatest efforts to sustain his companions. All three talked of their sorrow, of their hopes, and thus passed along the beautiful road by the water-side, and across the narrow plateau which unites the borders of the lake with the heights of the Chalais.
Chalais, one of her most useful agents, was despatched by her on a journey so mysterious that its obscurity has never been illuminated. He was eighteen days on the road, unknown, concealing his name, and passing within two leagues of Chalais, where his father and mother lived, without giving them any signs of life, although all were on very good terms.
It chanced on the occasion of one of those duels in 1663 that of the two brothers Frette wherein four fought on either side, and in which the Duke de Beauvilliers was slain, that the Prince de Chalais figured as one of the champions.
'Well? I said, somewhat troubled. 'If not, what, my friend? 'I fear he will be the last man you will fight, he answered. 'And even if he lives, I would not be too sure, my friend. This time the Cardinal is determined to put it down. 'He and I are old friends, I said confidently. 'So I have heard, he answered, with a short laugh. 'I think that the same was said of Chalais.
This studied negligence was of bad augury, but who would have imagined treatment so strange and so unheard of? Her nephews, Lanti and Chalais, who had permission to join her, completed her dejection. Yet she was faithful to herself.
Opposite them were seated the ci-devant Prince de Chalais, and the present Prince Cambaceres with the ci-devant Comtesse de Beauvais, and Madame Fauve, the daughter of a fishwoman, and the wife of a tribune, a ci-devant barber.
"I have seen his eminence Monsieur le Cardinal de Richelieu, and his eminence Monsieur le Cardinal de Mazarin; the one was a red politician, the other a black politician; I never felt very much more satisfied with the one than with the other; the first struck off the heads of M. de Marillac, M. de Thou, M. de Cinq-Mars, M. Chalais, M. de Bouteville, and M. de Montmorency; the second got a whole crowd of Frondeurs cut in pieces, and we belonged to them."
"Do you know the end of his favorites? Have you been told of the exile of Baradas; of that of Saint-Simon; of the convent of Mademoiselle de la Fayette, the shame of Madame d'Hautfort, the death of Chalais? All have fallen before an order from Richelieu to his master. Without this favor, which you mistake for friendship, their lives would have been peaceful.
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