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On seeing the portrait he cordially shook the painter's hand, and exclaimed, "By Gad! though my old hulk does not deserve to be perpetuated, I would gladly give five hundred pistoles to see myself as like as that is to my dear old Rouville." At this hint the Baroness looked at her young friend and smiled, while her face lighted up with an expression of sudden gratitude.
"At all events, man or devil, body or shadow, illusion or reality, this man is born for my damnation; for his flight has caused us to miss a glorious affair, gentlemen an affair by which there were a hundred pistoles, and perhaps more, to be gained." "How is that?" cried Porthos and Aramis in a breath.
Fame is mine, and I am wretched. Over the realms of civilisation my name is noised abroad; in the populous cities the glory of my art resounds; when my barge glided among the palaces of Venice, the blue Adriatic was purpled with blossoms in my honour. Fame? Fame brings not happiness to Cagliostro. Wealth? Not so. Ducats, pistoles, louis-d'or, have brought no panacea to the sorrows of Balsamo.
How much have you left of your hundred pistoles, d'Artagnan?" "Of my hundred pistoles? Why, in the first place I gave you fifty." "You think so?" "Ah, that is true. I recollect." "Then I paid the host six." "What a brute of a host! Why did you give him six pistoles?" "You told me to give them to him." "It is true; I am too good-natured. In brief, how much remains?"
"Ah, that's quite another thing; but promise me, if you should not be killed tonight, that you will go tomorrow." "I promise it." "Do you need money?" "I have still fifty pistoles. That, I think, is as much as I shall want." "But your companions?" "I don't think they can be in need of any. We left Paris, each with seventy-five pistoles in his pocket."
We have undergone a great deal of fatigue, remember, and a little rest will do no harm." "I rest? Oh, no, Athos. Once in Paris, I shall prosecute my search for that unfortunate woman!" "Well, you may be assured that your horse will not be half so serviceable to you for that purpose as good golden louis. Take the hundred pistoles, my friend; take the hundred pistoles!"
"Now," said Herode, when nothing remained of the goose but its well-picked bones, "we must try to decide upon what is best to be done. Only three or four pistoles are left in the exchequer, and my office as treasurer bids fair to become a sinecure.
On the eighth day after the scene we have described, the cardinal received a letter with the London stamp which only contained these lines: "I have them; but I am unable to leave London for want of money. Send me five hundred pistoles, and four or five days after I have received them I shall be in Paris."
He accepted my challenge, and, my faith, my seventy-five pistoles passed from my pocket to his, without reckoning my horse, which he won into the bargain. But you, my dear d'Artagnan?" "What can you expect, my dear Porthos; a man is not privileged in all ways," said d'Artagnan.
By midnight Fauquier, playing with the nerve of a great gambler, had won them all back laughing, careless, but not more careless than when he lost. At fifteen minutes past twelve he had won a bond for two hundred pistoles from Sir Asinus; at sixteen minutes past twelve his Excellency rose, and taking the cards up with both hands, threw them out of the window.
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