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"Well, well!" thought D'Artagnan, "there is another who is not up to the mark;" and he uttered a sigh which might signify, "Oh! the men of our stamp, where are they now?" At this moment an usher lifted up the curtain before the door, and announced the king's physician. "Ah!" exclaimed Louis, "here comes Monsieur Valot, who has just been to see M. de Guiche.
"For your majesty's sufferings," the former replied. "Who brings it?" asked Madame de Motteville, eagerly; "Monsieur Valot?" "No; a lady from Flanders." "From Flanders? Is she Spanish?" inquired the queen. "I don't know." "Who sent her?" "M. Colbert." "Her name?" "She did not mention it." "Her position in life?" "She will answer that herself." "Who is she?" "She is masked."
When his mother and grandparents were dead, Mademoiselle was almost as happy with his paternal uncle, an unmarried man, who had carefully attended the idiot, and who had grown more and more attached to him by dint of looking after him; and the worthy man continued to call Jean Marie Mathieu Valot, Mademoiselle.
We shall now hear news of the man maltreated by the boar." Manicamp felt more uncomfortable than ever. "In this way, at least," added the king, "our conscience will be quite clear." And he looked at D'Artagnan, who did not seem in the slightest degree discomposed. M. Valot entered.
"By a poacher, rather, or by a jealous husband, or an ill-used lover, who, in order to be revenged, fired upon him." "What is it that you say, Monsieur Valot? Were not M. de Guiche's wounds produced by defending himself against a wild boar?"
"It is precisely like M. Valot," said D'Artagnan, resuming the conversation where the king had left off; "he has been imagining all along, that not only was M. de Guiche wounded by a bullet, but still more, that he extracted it, even, from his chest." "Upon my word," said Valot, "I assure you " "Now, did you not believe that?" continued D'Artagnan.
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