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Baisemeaux rose, manifesting unspeakable emotion: "Go on, dear M. d'Herblay: go on," said he. Aramis then spoke, or rather recited the following paragraph, in the same tone as if he had been reading it from a book: "The aforesaid captain or governor of a fortress shall allow to enter, when need shall arise, and on demand of the prisoner, a confessor affiliated to the order." He stopped.
"By this letter, sire, which M. d'Herblay, free and out of danger, writes me from Bayonne." "Look here," said the king, drawing from a casket placed upon the table closet to the seat upon which D'Artagnan was leaning, "here is a letter copied exactly from that of M. d'Herblay. Here is the very letter, which Colbert placed in my hands a week before you received yours.
The three gentlemen then shook hands, Lord de Winter taking the Rue Saint Honore, and Athos and Aramis remaining together. "Well," said Aramis, when they were alone, "what do you think of this business, my dear count?" "Bad," replied Athos, "very bad." "But you received it with enthusiasm." "As I shall ever receive the defense of a great principle, my dear D'Herblay.
M. d'Herblay! Impossible!" "You see that he has undoubtedly influenced you." "No, monseigneur; what does, in fact, influence me, is the king's service. I am doing my duty. Give me an order from him, and you shall enter." "Stay, M. le gouverneur, I give you my word that if you allow me to see the prisoner, I will give you an order from the king at once." "Give it to me now, monseigneur."
"Do you remember, fifteen or eighteen years ago, seeing at Noisy-le-Sec a cavalier, accompanied by a lady in black silk, with flame-colored ribbons in her hair?" "Yes," said the young man; "I once asked the name of this cavalier, and they told me that he called himself the Abbe d'Herblay.
"What do you mean to say?" cried the king, surprised. "M. d'Herblay came, as may be said, to deliver himself into my hands. M. d'Herblay left to me the happiness of saving my king and my country. I could not condemn M. d'Herblay to death; nor could I, on the other hand, expose him to your majesty's justifiable wrath; it would have been just the same as if I had killed him myself."
"My dear Monsieur d'Herblay, I have been playing at cross-purposes for more than an hour, and, however amusing it may be, I begin to have had enough of this game. So understand me thoroughly: the girl pretended not to understand what I was saying to her; she denied having received any letter; therefore, having positively denied its receipt, she was unable either to return or burn it."
"I should do something rash." "What would you do? Tell me." "I should look out for the man who was the cause of all your anxieties." "Ah! according to your account, I am anxious now." "Yes, you are anxious; and you are getting thin, visibly getting thin. Malaga! if you go on getting thin, in this way, I will take my sword in my hand, and go straight to M. d'Herblay, and have it out with him."
"Four hours!" repeated Aramis, in a thick, smothered voice. "It is more than you will need to get on board a vessel and flee to Belle-Isle, which I give you as a place of refuge." "Ah!" murmured Aramis. "Belle-Isle is as much mine for you, as Vaux is mine for the king. Go, D'Herblay, go! as long as I live, not a hair of your head shall be injured."
"I have no longer any doubt that such a man as you, monsieur," said Aramis, gravely, "does not faithfully serve the masters whom he voluntarily chose for himself." "Masters!" cried Baisemeaux. "Yes, masters, I said." "Monsieur d'Herblay, you are still jesting, are you not?" "Oh, yes!
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