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Jussac was, as was then said, a fine blade, and had had much practice; nevertheless it required all his skill to defend himself against an adversary who, active and energetic, departed every instant from received rules, attacking him on all sides at once, and yet parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis. This contest at length exhausted Jussac's patience.
"Come, gentlemen, have you decided?" cried Jussac for the third time. "It is done, gentlemen," said Athos. "And what is your choice?" asked Jussac. "We are about to have the honor of charging you," replied Aramis, lifting his hat with one hand and drawing his sword with the other. "Ah! You resist, do you?" cried Jussac. "S'blood; does that astonish you?"
The first time he saw d'Artagnan, "You have come off well," said he to him; "there is your Jussac thrust paid for. There still remains that of Bernajoux, but you must not be too confident."
It was at this very instant that De Jussac dropped the box beside him and threw up his hands. "The guillotine!" he shrieked, and fell headlong into the pit he had just issued from. The poor bandaged figure; the approaching death; the dog whining softly in the yard. "I am dying, my little Plancine?" The girl's forehead was bowed on the homely quilt. "Nay, cry not, little one! I go very happy.
The moment his companion's feet touched bottom, De Jussac snatched the light from his hand, roughly enough to send him off his balance, and went scurrying to and fro along the face of the cliff like a mad thing. "I cannot find it!" he cried, rushing back after an interval nervous, in an agony of restlessness a very pitiable old man. George spoke up from the ground.
"When Black Venn slips his apron, I shall be in a position to consider your suit." Surely that was an odd and enigmatical condition, entirely remote from the subject at issue? Yet from the moment of the first impassioned pleadings of the stricken George, De Jussac had insisted upon it as one from which there should be no appeal.
The party was to take place at St. Germain, I believe, and they had appointed to meet at the Carmes-Deschaux, when they were disturbed by de Jussac, Cahusac, Bicarat, and two other Guardsmen, who certainly did not go there in such a numerous company without some ill intention against the edicts." "Ah, ah! You incline me to think so," said the king.
I do not wear the uniform, but my heart is that of a musketeer." "Withdraw, young man, and save your skin!" cried Jussac. The three musketeers thought of D'Artagnan's youth, and dreaded his inexperience. "Try me, gentlemen," said D'Artagnan, "and I swear to you that I will never go hence if we are conquered." Athos pressed the young man's hand, and exclaimed, "Well, then!
"If we were to see you fighting, I can assure you that we would make no effort to prevent you. Leave us alone, then, and you will enjoy a little amusement without cost to yourselves." "Gentlemen," said Jussac, "it is with great regret that I pronounce the thing impossible. Duty before everything. Sheathe, then, if you please, and follow us."
And the nine combatants rushed upon each other with a fury which however did not exclude a certain degree of method. Athos fixed upon a certain Cahusac, a favorite of the cardinal's. Porthos had Bicarat, and Aramis found himself opposed to two adversaries. As to d'Artagnan, he sprang toward Jussac himself.
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