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"Yes, but," answered La Ramee, trying to laugh, "a ladder of ropes can't be sent around a ball, like a letter." "No, but it may be sent in something else." "In something else in something else? In what?" "In a pate, for example." "In a pate?" said La Ramee. "Yes.
"To own the truth, I should be inconsolable if you were to leave Vincennes." "A droll way of showing your affliction." The duke meant to say "affection." "But, my lord," returned La Ramee, "what would you do if you got out? Every folly you committed would embroil you with the court and they would put you into the Bastile, instead of Vincennes.
"My lord," replied La Ramee, "I think if it depended on the cardinal your wishes would be fulfilled." "What do you mean? Have you seen him lately?" "He sent for me to-day." "Really! to speak to you about me?" "Of what else do you imagine he would speak to me? Really, my lord, you are his nightmare." The duke smiled with bitterness. "Ah, La Ramee! if you would but accept my offers!
"My lord," said La Ramee, "if you will take a bit of good advice, don't put that off till you are old." "Good!" said the Duc de Beaufort to himself, "every man in order that he may lose his heart and soul, must receive from celestial bounty one of the seven capital sins, perhaps two; it seems that Master La Ramee's is gluttony. Let us then take advantage of it."
You will see the same at every opening from this palace to which I should lead you. Your doors are guarded, the airholes of your cellars are guarded, and I could say to you, as that good La Ramee said to me of the Duc de Beaufort, you must be either bird or mouse to get out." "He did get out, nevertheless." "Do you think of escaping in the same way?" "I am a prisoner, then?"
"I will pay you the value of your office." "And if I defend myself, or call out?" "By the honour of a gentleman, you die upon the spot!" At this moment the clock struck. "Seven o'clock," said Grimaud, who had not yet uttered a word. La Ramée made a movement. The duke frowned, and the unlucky jailer felt the point of the dagger penetrate his clothes, and press against his breast.
All the good that is in the hearts of all the good women they know, all the good that is in their own hearts, they have made to shine forth from the "Mother of God." Woman has been the symbol of righteousness and faith. On the other hand, it was a woman Louise de la Ramee who said, "Woman is the instrument of lust."
"Well," said La Ramée, with some appearance of uneasiness, "but what then? Unless, indeed, the horses have wings, and can fly up the rampart to fetch you." "Or that I have means of flying down," said the duke, carelessly. "A rope-ladder, for instance." "Yes," said La Ramée, with a forced laugh; "but a rope ladder can hardly be sent in a tennis-ball, though a letter may."
"Pardon me; for instance, I say to my friends, Be on a certain day, on a certain hour, at the other side of the moat with two horses." "Well, what then?" La Ramee began to be uneasy; "unless the horses have wings to mount the ramparts and come and fetch you." "That's not needed. I have," replied the duke, "a way of descending from the ramparts." "What?" "A rope ladder."
I insist upon it; or they will hang me for not having given the alarm." In an instant La Ramée was gagged, and laid upon the ground; two or three chairs were overturned, to make it appear that there had been a struggle.
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