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"I saw that lady once with a gentleman about forty-five years old. I saw her once with you, and with the lady dressed in black. I have seen her twice since then with the same person. These four people, with my master, and old Perronnette, my jailer, and the governor of the prison, are the only persons with whom I have ever spoken, and, indeed, almost the only persons I have ever seen."
Those boisterous sounds of general joy disturbed the dauphin, the future king of France, who was quietly lying in the arms of Madame de Hausac, his nurse, and whose eyes, as he opened them, and stared about, might have observed two crowns at the foot of his cradle. Suddenly your majesty uttered a piercing cry, and Dame Perronnette immediately flew to your beside.
The late king sleeps now with his ancestors; Perronnette, the midwife, soon followed him; Laporte is already forgotten." The queen opened her lips as though to reply; she felt, beneath her icy hand, with which she kept her face half concealed, the beads of perspiration on her brow.
"'The queen's last letter! cried Perronnette, without showing more astonishment than at seeing this letter at the bottom of the well; 'but how came it there? "'A chance, Dame Perronnette a singular chance.
"Go on, I pray you," said Aramis. "Dame Perronnette came running up, hearing the governor's cries. He went to meet her, took her by the arm, and drew her quickly towards the edge; after which, as they both bent over it together, 'Look, look, cried he, 'what a misfortune! "'Calm yourself, calm yourself, said Perronnette; 'what is the matter?
'And as paper, remarked my preceptor, 'naturally unfolds in water, the young man would not be surprised at finding nothing, after all, but the letter wide open. "'But perhaps the writing will be already effaced by that time, said Dame Perronnette. "'No consequence, provided we secure the letter.
Therefore, Laporte appeared with a smile upon his lips, and approached the king's chair, saying to him 'Sire, the queen is very happy, and would be still more so to see your majesty. On that day, Louis XIII. would have given his crown away to the veriest beggar for a 'God bless you. Animated, light-hearted, and full of gayety, the king rose from the table, and said to those around him, in a tone that Henry IV. might have adopted, 'Gentlemen, I am going to see my wife. He came to your beside, madame, at the very moment Dame Perronnette presented to him a second prince, as beautiful and healthy as the former, and said 'Sire, Heaven will not allow the kingdom of France to fall into the female line. The king, yielding to a first impulse, clasped the child in his arms, and cried, 'Oh, Heaven, I thank Thee!"
"Oh!" said the prisoner, betraying a bitter acquaintance with affairs than he had owned to, "I thought that Monsieur was only born in " Aramis raised his finger; "Permit me to continue," he said. The prisoner sighed impatiently, and paused. "Yes," said Aramis, "the queen had a second son, whom Dame Perronnette, the midwife, received in her arms." "Dame Perronnette!" murmured the young man.
"It happened, monsieur," answered he, "that the workmen they had summoned found nothing in the well, after the closest search; that my governor perceived that the brink was all watery; that I was not so dried by the sun as to prevent Dame Perronnette spying that my garments were moist; and, lastly, that I was seized with a violent fever, owing to the chill and the excitement of my discovery, an attack of delirium supervening, during which I related the whole adventure; so that, guided by my avowal, my governor found the pieces of the queen's letter inside the bolster where I had concealed them."
"But at this notion Dame Perronnette lamented and cried in such a manner, and so implored the old nobleman, with tears in her eyes, that he promised her to obtain a ladder long enough to reach down, while she went in search of some stout-hearted youth, whom she was to persuade that a jewel had fallen into the well, and that this jewel was wrapped in a paper.
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