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For example, an English prince died one day because they had put him into a butt of Malmsey. I heard the Chevalier d'Herblay say so." "The fool!" cried Blaisois, "I wish I had been in his place." "Thou canst be," said Grimaud, writing down his figures. "How?" asked Blaisois, "I can? Explain yourself." Grimaud went on with his sum and cast up the whole.
"Well! and what have you done?" "Sire, I gave M. d'Herblay the best horses in my stables and four hours' start over all those your majesty might, probably, dispatch after him." "Be it so!" murmured the king. "But still, the world is wide enough and large enough for those whom I may send to overtake your horses, notwithstanding the 'four hours' start' which you have given to M. d'Herblay."
"Come, vicomte," he said, "it is time for you to go to bed; you will start in the morning for the army of monsieur le prince. Sleep well your last night as citizen." "I am to be a soldier then?" said the young man. "Oh, monsieur, I thank you with all my heart." "Adieu, count," said the Abbe d'Herblay; "I return to my convent."
"Silence," said Fouquet; "yonder venomous reptile has recognized us, and is crawling this way." "Colbert?" "Yes; leave me, D'Herblay; I do not wish that fellow to see you with me, or he will take an aversion to you." Aramis pressed his hand, saying, "What need have I of his friendship, while you are here?" "Yes, but I may not always be here," replied Fouquet, dejectedly.
"Take care," said Aramis, "take care!" "Of what? dear M. d'Herblay," said Baisemeaux, half intoxicated. "The letter which the courier brings to the governor of a fortress is sometimes an order." "Nearly always." "Do not orders issue from the ministers?" "Yes, undoubtedly; but " "And what to these ministers do but countersign the signature of the king?" "Perhaps you are right.
"By my rank and by my name I swear that all except M. le Chevalier d'Herblay shall have their lives spared. I am lieutenant of the king's frigate the 'Pomona, and my name is Louis Constant de Pressigny."
"Sire," replied he, "does your majesty absolutely require M. d'Herblay to be brought to you?" "Absolutely is not the word," said Philippe; "I do not want him so particularly as that; but if he can be found " "I thought so," said D'Artagnan to himself. "Is this M. d'Herblay the bishop of Vannes?" "Yes, madame." "A friend of M. Fouquet?" "Yes, madame; an old musketeer." Anne of Austria blushed.
"Certainly, but he was strongly persuaded to do so by my protector." "Who is he?" "One of your own friends, indeed; M. d'Herblay." "M. d'Herblay! Aramis!" "Just so; he has been very kind towards me." "Kind! to make you enter into such a bargain!" "Listen! I wished to leave the cardinal's service.
Don't you know that Vannes is in the diocese of Belle-Isle, or Belle-Isle in the diocese of Vannes? Belle-Isle belongs to M. Fouquet, and M. Fouquet nominated M. d'Herblay to that bishopric!" "I see, I see; you restore me to life again." "So much the better. Go and tell M. Fouquet very simply that you wish to speak to M. d'Herblay." "Of course, of course," exclaimed Baisemeaux, delightedly.
"Now tell me," said Fouquet, after having installed his guest in an armchair and seated himself by his side, "tell me, Monsieur d'Herblay, what is our position with regard to the Belle-Isle affair, and whether you have received any news about it." "Everything is going on in that direction as we wish," replied Aramis; "the expenses have been paid, and nothing has transpired of our designs."
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