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"If she had but written to me!" murmured Henri. "Remember, my father, that you were sent here as a confessor," said De Thou. Here old Grandchamp, who had been kneeling before Cinq-Mars, and dragging him by his clothes to the other side of the terrace, exclaimed in a broken voice: "Monseigneur my master my good master do you see them? Look there 'tis they! 'tis they all of them!"
"I thought I saw brown robes turning in the air," said Grandchamp; "they are the Cardinal's friends." A horrible cry was heard from the tower, accompanied by an impious oath. The heavy trap groaned for the fourth time.
He saw, or thought he saw, the same woman clothed in black, whom he had pointed out to Grandchamp, approach so near as to touch his horse's mane, pull his cloak, and then run off with a jeering laugh; the sand of the road seemed to him a river running beneath him, with opposing current, back toward its source. This strange sight dazzled his worn eyes; he closed them and fell asleep on his horse.
"There is a Providence," said Grandchamp; "Urbain Grandier summoned him in three years. But come, come! the time is precious! Do not remain motionless. Be it he, I am not surprised, for those wretches devour each other. But let us endeavor to deprive them of their choicest morsel. Vive Dieu! I see the signal! We are saved! All is ready; run to this side, Monsieur l'Abbe!
In order to appear before the King, Cinq-Mars had been compelled to mount the charger of one of the light horse, wounded in the affair, having lost his own at the foot of the rampart. As the two companies were marching out, he felt some one touch his shoulder, and, turning round, saw old Grandchamp leading a very beautiful gray horse. "Will Monsieur le Marquis mount a horse of his own?" said he.
Why did they admit me at this moment?" "As a confessor, Monsieur," whispered one of the commissioners; "for no stranger has entered this place these two months." As soon as the huge gates of the prison were closed, and the outside gratings lowered, "To the terrace, in the name of Heaven!" again exclaimed Grandchamp. And he drew his master and De Thou thither.
As he spoke, he laughed heartily, and was the last to leave the room, pushing the astonished master of requests before him. The sombre tribunal had scarcely disappeared when Grandchamp, relieved from his two guards, hastened toward his master, and, seizing his hand, said: "In the name of Heaven, come to the terrace, Monseigneur! I have something to show you; in the name of your mother, come!"
She always comes in after the first course, and makes every one rise from the table." "Ah, my good Grandchamp," said in a low voice a young maid servant who was passing, "do not speak of the Duchess; she is very sorrowful, and I believe that she will remain in her apartment.
One of the Swiss says that it's the officer, the other that it's the soldier; a third has just made a proposition for meeting the difficulty." "And what does he say?" "He suggests that they hang them both." "Stop! stop!" cried Cinq-Mars to the soldiers, attempting to walk; but his leg would not support him. "Put me on my horse, Grandchamp." "Monsieur, you forget your wound."
"Grandchamp, my friend," said she, "Remy and I are going to accomplish a pilgrimage on which we have long determined; speak of this journey to none, and do not mention my name to any one." "Oh! I promise you, madame," replied the old servant; "but we shall see you again?" "Doubtless, Grandchamp; if not in this world, in the next. But, apropos, Grandchamp, this house is now useless to us."
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