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The horses are two rather large animals of equal pace, horses well used to maneuvers of all kinds, for they wheeled round the barrier of the Rond-point together." "Well and after?" "The two cavaliers paused there for a minute, no doubt to arrange the conditions of the engagement; the horses grew restless and impatient.
"I give you my word of honor." "Excellent," thought the king, laughing to himself; "now every one will know to-morrow that I have been running about after La Valliere to-night." Then, endeavoring to see where he was, he said: "Why we have lost ourselves." "Not quite so bad as that, sire." "Where does that gate lead to?" "To Rond-Point, sire."
About four in the afternoon on the fifteenth of November, 1803, the sun was casting what looked like scarlet dust upon the venerable tops of four rows of elms in a long baronial avenue, and sparkling on the sand and grassy places of an immense rond-point, such as we often see in the country where land is cheap enough to be sacrificed to ornament.
"What do you say to that?" said Michu, in a low voice, calling his wife's attention to two strangers who appeared in a by-path making for the rond-point. "What can it mean?" cried the old mother. "They are Parisians." "Here they come!" said Michu. "Hide my gun," he whispered to his wife. The two men who now crossed the wide open space of the rond-point were typical enough for a painter.
Saint-Aignan, I do not understand a syllable of what you have been telling me. Where did this affair happen?" "At the Rond-point, in that part of the forest called the Bois-Rochin." "That will do. Call M. d'Artagnan." Saint-Aignan obeyed, and the musketeer entered. "Monsieur d'Artagnan," said the king, "you will leave this place by the little door of the private staircase." "Yes, sire."
The breeze was wafting the last red-brown leaves from the trees, turning them over and over before they fell on the autumnal greensward and the black earth of the empty flower-beds. Rows of carriages were moving towards the Étoile. As they had cleared the Rond-Point of the Champs-Elysées Brocq uttered a cry of joy.
The shortest road from Cinq-Cygne to Michu's lodge was that which led from the village past the farm at Bellache to the rond-point where the Parisian spies had first seen Michu on the preceding evening. The gendarme who was driving Corentin took this way, which was the one the corporal of Arcis had taken.
Zibeline's sleigh, which had glided swiftly, and without hindrance, along the unfrequented track used chiefly by equestrians, had indeed overtaken the Duchess's carriage. Turning abruptly to the left, it entered the open gateway belonging to one of the corner houses of the Rond-Point de l'Etoile.
The rond-point is at the entrance of the park of Gondreville, one of the finest estates in France, and by far the finest in the departments of the Aube; it boasts of long avenues of elms, a castle built from designs by Mansart, a park of fifteen hundred acres enclosed by a stone wall, nine large farms, a forest, mills, and meadows.
Zibeline's sleigh, which had glided swiftly, and without hindrance, along the unfrequented track used chiefly by equestrians, had indeed overtaken the Duchess's carriage. Turning abruptly to the left, it entered the open gateway belonging to one of the corner houses of the Rond-Point de l'Etoile.
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