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Updated: September 3, 2025
"But you, Guitant, are not a courtier. You are a brave soldier, one of the few remaining veterans of the days of Henry IV. Alas! how few to-day exist!" "Plague on't, my lord, have you brought me here to get my horoscope out of me?" "No; I only brought you here to ask you," returned Mazarin, smiling, "if you have taken any particular notice of our lieutenant of musketeers?" "Monsieur d'Artagnan?
And he pointed to a magnificent hotel situated on the very spot whereon the Vaudeville now stands. "In that hotel? it is the Hotel Rambouillet," cried Guitant. "I really don't know what hotel it is; all I do know is that I observed some suspicious looking people go in there " "Nonsense!" exclaimed Guitant, with a burst of laughter; "those men must be poets."
"My lord, as to the report you allude to" Guitant perceived that the cardinal wished to make him speak out "I know nothing but what the public knows. I never meddle in intrigues, and if I occasionally become a confidant of the intrigues of others I am sure your eminence will approve of my keeping them secret." Mazarin shook his head.
"Now, my dear Guitant, I have often remarked that in addition to your courage, which is indisputable, and your fidelity, which is invincible, you possess an admirable memory." "You have found that out, have you, my lord? Deuce take it all the worse for me!" "How?" "There is no doubt but that one of the chief accomplishments of a courtier is to know when to forget."
"I know, Guitant," said Mazarin. "Well, then, how is it that your eminence complained just now of want of information?" "You think," resumed Mazarin, "that Rochefort " "He was Cardinal Richelieu's creature, my lord. I warn you, however, his services will cost you something. The cardinal was lavish to his underlings."
In the street of Saint Thomas-du-Louvre they stopped at the barrier distinguished by the name of Quinze-Vingts. Here Guitant spoke to one of the subalterns, asking how matters were progressing. "Ah, captain!" said the officer, "everything is quiet hereabout if I did not know that something is going on in yonder house!"
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