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I heard him say, 'D'Argence, save my life and I will give you a hundred thousand crowns!" "And what was the answer?" "The officer promised, my lord, but just afterwards a fresh body of soldiers came galloping to that part of the field. Then the Prince said, 'There is Monseigneur's troop; I am a dead man!" "And what answered D'Argence?"
Left almost alone, with his back against a tree, one knee upon the ground, and deprived of the use of one leg, Conde still defends himself; but his strength is failing him; he sees two Catholic gentlemen to whom he had rendered service, Saint-Jean and D'Argence; he calls to them, raises the vizor of his helmet, and holds out to them his gauntlets.
D'Argence understands him, and, 'Hide your face! he cries. 'Ah D'Argence, D'Argence, you will not save me, replies the prince. Then, like Caesar, covering up his face, he awaited death the poor soul knew only too well the perfidious character of the Duke of Anjou, the hatred with which he was hunting him down, and the sanguinary orders he would give.
They were yellow with age, and the faint ink was the color of rust, and outside the sheet, which was folded in the fashion of years long past, it was addressed in a delicate hand: To Monsieur l'Abbé d'Argence The first three lines merely settled places of meeting, but here is the third: "My Friend; I am very unwell, ill in fact, and I cannot leave my bed.
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