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"Two old friends!" said the duke, shaking honest Grimaud's shoulder after a vigorous fashion; which was followed by another still more profound and delighted bow from Grimaud. "But what is this, count, only one glass?" "I should not think of drinking with your highness, unless your highness permitted me," replied Athos, with noble humility.
The same order was followed in returning, nor did Grimaud's searching glance discover anything of a suspicious appearance, save a dark shadow, as it were, in ambuscade, at the corner of the Rue Guenegaud and of the Quai. He fancied, also, that in going he had already observed the street watcher who had attracted his attention.
Whereupon Grimaud, observing the duke's disappointment, drew from his pocket a purse filled with gold and handed it to him. "Here is what you are looking for," he said. The duke opened the purse and wanted to empty it into Grimaud's hands, but Grimaud shook his head. "Thank you, monseigneur," he said, drawing back; "I am paid." The duke went from one surprise to another. He held out his hand.
Without uttering a cry, without shedding a tear, patient, mild, resigned as a martyr, he raised his eyes towards Heaven, in order there to see again, rising above the mountain of Gigelli, the beloved shade that was leaving him at the moment of Grimaud's arrival.
As he said this, he pressed Grimaud's hand, who seemed honored by the distinction. "Farewell till we meet again," said Aramis, as they took leave of Planchet; "if anything happens to us we shall blame you for it." "Sir," said Planchet, "I am in all things at your service." "That fellow is no fool," said Aramis, as he got on his horse.
When once in the saddle Grimaud reflected on two things; first, that at the pace he was going his horse would not carry him ten miles, and secondly, that he had no money. But Grimaud's ingenuity was more prolific than his speech, and therefore at the first halt he sold his steed and with the money obtained from the purchase took post horses. On the Eve of Battle.
He must have been dreadfully hurt, for he did not stir from the place where he fell. Immediately one of the men who were waiting slipped down into the moat, tied under Grimaud's shoulders the end of a cord, and the remaining two, who held the other end, drew Grimaud to them. "Descend, my lord," said the man in the moat.
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