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Madame pronounced this last word in such an accent of frankness, and even of tenderness, that poor De Guiche's heart felt almost bursting. "Oh! Madame, Madame!" he stammered out. "Nay, listen further," she continued.
The different noblemen and ladies of the court thereupon defiled before the king, one after the other, in order to thank his majesty for the great honor which had been conferred upon them by the invitation. When it came to De Guiche's turn, the king said, "Ah! M. de Guiche, I did not see you." The comte bowed, and Madame turned pale.
"Yes," said Valot; "not only did I believe it, but, at this very moment, I would swear it." "Well, my dear doctor, you have dreamt it." "I have dreamt it!" "M. de Guiche's wound a mere dream; the bullet, a dream. So, take my advice, and prate no more about it." "Well said," returned the king, "M. d'Artagnan's advice is sound.
Bragelonne quitted the tent with the slow and measured step of a man curious to observe, but anxious not to be seen. Sheltered behind the thick curtains of his own tent, embracing with a glance the whole square, he noticed that, after a few moments' pause, the curtains of De Guiche's tent were agitated, and then drawn partially aside.
The result was, that Monsieur who had at first been in the highest spirits, and completely restored since Guiche's departure subsided into his melancholy state three days after the court was installed at Fontainebleau.
There is nothing commonplace about her: it is not every one who takes her fancy." "Monseigneur " "No resistance, De Guiche, or I shall get out of temper," replied the prince. "Well, since he will have it so," murmured Manicamp, in Guiche's ear, "do as he wants you to do." "Well, monseigneur," said the comte, "I obey."
That which does in truth dishonor a man is to avoid meeting his enemy not to avoid meeting his executioner!" "Well, monsieur, that may be so," said Louis XIV.; "I am desirous of suggesting a means of your repairing all." "If it be a means of which a gentleman may avail himself, I shall most eagerly seize the opportunity." "The name of M. de Guiche's adversary?"
"M. de Guiche's wounds are the result of a pistol-bullet that broke his ring-finger and the little finger of the right hand, and afterwards buried itself in the intercostal muscles of the chest." "A bullet! Are you sure Monsieur de Guiche was wounded by a bullet?" exclaimed the king, pretending to look much surprised. "Indeed, I am, sire; so sure, in fact, that here it is."
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