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"Do you hear?" interrupted D'Artagnan; "become a Frondist, my friend, belong to the Fronde, and remember that I fill the count's place in everything;" and he jingled his money. "Will you come?" said he to Porthos. "Where?" asked Porthos, filling a second glass of wine. "To present our respects to the cardinal."
"Eh! Egad! love me too; I will not torment you much, but only on condition that you become a Frondist, my young friend, and a hearty Frondist, too." "But can I continue to visit Madame de Chevreuse?"
"Yes, sir," answered Athos, agitated; "so much so that I wish to see him if possible." "Quite possible, sir; do me the favor to accompany me and I will conduct you to headquarters." "Halloo, there!" cried Aramis, turning around; "what a noise behind us!" "A body of cavaliers is coming toward us," said Chatillon. "I recognize the coadjutor by his Frondist hat."
But the chevalier was himself at heart a Frondist and would hear nothing said of compensation. The mendicant had gone to his old place on the steps of Saint Eustache and was again distributing holy water with one hand and asking alms with the other. No one could suspect that those two hands had been engaged with others in drawing out from the social edifice the keystone of royalty.
"Every Frondist must put a knot of straw in his hat." "Good! Give the watchword." "Do you want money?" "Money never comes amiss at any time, my lord; if one has it not, one must do without it; with it, matters go on much better and more rapidly." Gondy went to a box and drew forth a bag.
Planchet saluted in the manner of one accustomed to fine houses. "And you are disposed to serve the cause of the people?" asked Gondy. "Most undoubtedly," said Planchet. "I am a Frondist from my heart. You see in me, such as I am, a person sentenced to be hung." "And on what account?"
Madame de Longueville was persuaded. This Frondist duchess trusted so confidently to the power of her fine eyes, that she could not doubt their influence even over Monsieur de Conde; and the chronicles of the time aver that her confidence was justified. Athos, on quitting Aramis, went to Madame de Chevreuse.
All very fine, my lord, but at the very first hint you give of such a thing I will strangle you and become Frondist. I should be carried home in triumph like Monsieur Broussel and Athos would proclaim me the French Brutus. It would be exceedingly droll." The Gascon, with his vivid imagination, had already seen the advantage to be derived from his situation.
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