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88 - Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas · Twenty Years After

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  Speaker 1: Shows how with threat and pen more is effected than
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  Speaker 1: by the sword. d'Artagnan knew his part well. He was
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  Speaker 1: aware that opportunity has a forelock only for him who
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  Speaker 1: will take it, and he was not a man to
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  Speaker 1: let it go by him without seizing it. He soon
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  Speaker 1: arranged a prompt and certain manner of traveling by sending
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  Speaker 1: relays of horses to Chantilly, so that he might be
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  Speaker 1: in Paris in five to six hours. But before setting
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  Speaker 1: out he reflected that for a lad of intelligence and experience,
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  Speaker 1: he was in a singular predicament, since he was proceeding
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  Speaker 1: toward uncertainty and leaving certainty behind him. In fact, he said,
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  Speaker 1: as he was about to mount and start on his
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  Speaker 1: dangerous mission, Athos, for generosity, is a hero of romance.
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  Speaker 1: Porthos has an excellent disposition, but is easily influenced. Aramis
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  Speaker 1: has a hieroglyphic countenance, always illegible. What will come out
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  Speaker 1: of those three elements when I am no longer present
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  Speaker 1: to combine them? The deliverance of the cardinal? Perhaps now,
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  Speaker 1: the deliverance of the cardinal would only be the ruin
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  Speaker 1: of our hopes, And our hopes are thus far the
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  Speaker 1: only recompense we have for labors in comparison with which
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  Speaker 1: those of Hercules were Pigmian. He went to find Aramis, You,
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  Speaker 1: my dear Chevalier d'erblay, he said, of the fund incarnate
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  Speaker 1: mistrust Athos, therefore, who will not prosecute the affairs of
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  Speaker 1: any one, even his own mistrust. Porthos, especially who, to
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  Speaker 1: please the count, whom he regards as God on earth,
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  Speaker 1: will assist him in contriving Mazarin's escape, if Mazarin has
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  Speaker 1: the wit to weep or play the chivalric. Aramis smiled.
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  Speaker 1: His smile was at once cunning and resolute. Fear nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I have my conditions to impose. My private
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  Speaker 1: ambition tends only to the profit of him who has
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  Speaker 1: justice on his side. Good thought d'Artagnan. In this direction,
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  Speaker 1: I am satisfied. He pressed Aramis's hand and went in
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  Speaker 1: search of Porthos. Friend, he said, you have worked so
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  Speaker 1: hard with me toward building up our fortune, that at
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  Speaker 1: the moment when we are about to reap the fruits
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  Speaker 1: of our labors, it would be a ridiculous piece of
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  Speaker 1: silliness in you to allow yourself to be controlled by Aramis,
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  Speaker 1: whose cunning, you know, a cunning, which we may say
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  Speaker 1: between ourselves, is not always without egotism, or by Athos,
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  Speaker 1: a noble and disinterested man. But Blase, who desiring nothing
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  Speaker 1: further for himself, doesn't sympathize with the desires of others.
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  Speaker 1: What should you say if either of these two friends
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  Speaker 1: proposed you to let Mazarin go? Why I should say
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  Speaker 1: that we had too much trouble in taking him to
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  Speaker 1: let him off so easily. Bravo Porthos. And you would
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  Speaker 1: be right, my friend, for in losing him you would
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  Speaker 1: lose your barony, which you have in your grasp, to
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  Speaker 1: say nothing of the fact that were he once out
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  Speaker 1: of this, Mazarin would have you hanged. Do you think so?
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  Speaker 1: I am sure of it. Then I would kill him
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  Speaker 1: rather than let him go, and you would act rightly.
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  Speaker 1: There is no question, you understand, provided we secure our
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  Speaker 1: own interests of securing those of the Frondeurs, who, besides
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  Speaker 1: don't understand political matters as we old soldiers do. Never fear,
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  Speaker 1: dear friend, said Porthos. I shall see you through the
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  Speaker 1: window as you mount your horse. I shall follow you
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  Speaker 1: with my eyes as long as you are in sight.
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  Speaker 1: Then I shall place myself at the cardinal's door, a
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  Speaker 1: door with glass windows. I shall see everything, and at
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  Speaker 1: the least suspicious sign I shall begin to exterminate. Bravo,
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  Speaker 1: thought d'Artagnan. On this side, I think the Cardinal will
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  Speaker 1: be well guarded. He pressed the hand of the lord
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  Speaker 1: of Pierrefond and went in search of Athos. My dear Athos,
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  Speaker 1: he said, said, I am going away. I have only
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  Speaker 1: one thing to say to you. You know, Anne of Austria,
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  Speaker 1: the captivity of Mazarin alone guarantees my life. If you
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  Speaker 1: let him go, I am a dead man. I needed
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  Speaker 1: nothing less than that consideration, my dear d'Artagnan, to persuade
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  Speaker 1: myself to adopt the role of jailer. I give you
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  Speaker 1: my word that you will find the cardinal where you
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  Speaker 1: leave him. This reassures me more than all the royal signatures,
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  Speaker 1: thought d'Artagnan. Now that I have the word of Athos,
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  Speaker 1: I can set out. d'Artagnan started alone on his journey,
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  Speaker 1: without other escort than his sword, and with a simple
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  Speaker 1: passport from Mazarin to secure his admission to the queen's presence.
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  Speaker 1: Six hours after he left Pierrefont, he was at Saint Germain.
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  Speaker 1: The disappearance of Mazarin was not, as yet generally known.
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  Speaker 1: Anne of Austria was informed of it and concealed her
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  Speaker 1: uneasiness from every one. In the chamber of d'Artagnan and Porthos,
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  Speaker 1: the two soldiers had been found bound and gagged. On
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  Speaker 1: recovering the use of their limbs and tongues, they could
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  Speaker 1: of course tell nothing but what they knew that they
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  Speaker 1: had been seized, stripped, and bound. But as to what
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  Speaker 1: had been done by Porthos and d'Artagnan afterward, they were
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  Speaker 1: as ignorant as all the inhabitants of the chateau. Bernouin
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  Speaker 1: alone knew a little more than the others. Bernouin, seeing
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  Speaker 1: that his master did not return, and hearing the stroke
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  Speaker 1: of midnight, had made an examination of the orangery. The
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  Speaker 1: first door, barricaded with furniture, had aroused in him certain suspicions,
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  Speaker 1: But without communicating his suspicions to any one, he had
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  Speaker 1: patiently worked his way into the midst of all that confusion.
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  Speaker 1: Then he came to the corridor, all the doors of
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  Speaker 1: which he found open. So too was the door of
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  Speaker 1: Athos's chamber, and that of the park. From the latter point,
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  Speaker 1: it was easy to follow the tracks in the snow.
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  Speaker 1: He saw that these tracks tended toward the wall. On
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  Speaker 1: the other side he found similar tracks, then footprints of horses,
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  Speaker 1: and then signs of a troop of cavalry which had
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  Speaker 1: moved away in the direction of Engian. He could no
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  Speaker 1: longer cherish any doubt that the cardinal had been carried
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  Speaker 1: off by the three prisoners, since the prisoners had disappeared
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, and he had hastened to Saint
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  Speaker 1: Germain to warn the Queen of that disappearance. Anne had
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  Speaker 1: enforced the utmost secrecy and had disclosed the event to
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  Speaker 1: no one except the Prince de Conde, who had sent
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  Speaker 1: five or six hundred horsemen into the environs of Saint
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  Speaker 1: Germain with orders to bring in any suspicious person who
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  Speaker 1: was going away from Roill in whatsoever direction it might be. Now,
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  Speaker 1: since d'Artagnan did not constitute a body of horsemen, since
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  Speaker 1: he was alone, since he was not going away from
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  Speaker 1: Roye and was going to Saint Germain, no one paid
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  Speaker 1: any attention to him, and his journey was not obstructed
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  Speaker 1: in any way. On entering the court, yard of the
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  Speaker 1: old chateau. The first person seen by our ambassador was
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  Speaker 1: Maitre Bernouin, in person who standing on the threshold, awaited
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  Speaker 1: news of his vanished master. At the sight of d'Artagnan,
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  Speaker 1: who entered the courtyard on horseback, Bernouin rubbed his eyes
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  Speaker 1: and thought he must be mistaken, but d'Artagnan made a
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  Speaker 1: friendly sign to him. With his head dismounted and throwing
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  Speaker 1: his bridle to a lackey who was passing, he approached
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  Speaker 1: the Vale de Champ with a smile on his lips.
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur d'Artagnan cried the latter, like a man who has
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  Speaker 1: the nightmare and talks in his sleep. Monsieur d'Artagnan himself,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Bernouin, and why have you come here to bring
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  Speaker 1: news of Monsieur Mazarin. The freshest news there is. What
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  Speaker 1: has become of him? Then he is as well as
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  Speaker 1: you and I. Nothing bad has happened to him? Then,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. He felt the need of making a trip
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  Speaker 1: in Jille de France, and begged us, the Comte la
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  Speaker 1: Fere and Monsieur de Vallens, to accompany him. We were
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  Speaker 1: two devoted servants to refuse him a request of that sort.
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  Speaker 1: We set out last evening, and here we are, here
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  Speaker 1: you are. His Eminence had something to communicate to her Majesty,
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  Speaker 1: something secret and private, a mission that could be confided
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  Speaker 1: only to a sure man, and so has sent me
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  Speaker 1: to Saint Germain. And therefore, my dear Monsieur Bernouin, if
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  Speaker 1: you wish to do what will be pleasing to your master,
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  Speaker 1: announce to her Majesty that I have come, and tell
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  Speaker 1: her with what purpose? Whether he spoke seriously or in jest.
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  Speaker 1: Since it was evident that under existing circumstances, d'Artagnan was
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  Speaker 1: the only man who could relieve the Queen's uneasiness, Bernouin
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  Speaker 1: went without hesitation to announce to her this strange embassy,
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  Speaker 1: and as he had foreseen, the Queen gave orders to
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  Speaker 1: introduce Monsieur d'Artagnan. At once. d'Artagnan approached the Sovereign with
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  Speaker 1: every mark of profound respect, and, having fallen on his knees,
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  Speaker 1: presented to her the cardinal's letter. It was, however, merely
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  Speaker 1: a letter of introduction. The Queen read it, recognizing the writing,
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  Speaker 1: and since there were no details in it of what
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  Speaker 1: had occurred, asked for particulars d'Artagnan related everything with that
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  Speaker 1: simple and ingenuous air which he knew how to assume
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  Speaker 1: on occasions. The Queen, as he went on, looked at
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  Speaker 1: him with increasing astonishment. She could not comprehend how a
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  Speaker 1: man could conceive such an enterprise, and still less how
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  Speaker 1: he could have the audacity to disclose it to her,
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  Speaker 1: whose interest and almost duty it was to punish him.
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  Speaker 1: How sir, she cried as d'Artagnan finished, you dare to
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  Speaker 1: tell me the details of your crime, to give me
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  Speaker 1: an account of your treason. Pardon madam, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that either I have expressed myself badly or your Majesty
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  Speaker 1: has imperfectly understood me. There is no question of crime
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  Speaker 1: or treason. Monsieur de Mazarin held us in prison, Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: de Vallen and myself because we could not believe that
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  Speaker 1: he sent us to England to quietly look on while
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  Speaker 1: they cut off the heads of Charles, the first brother
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  Speaker 1: in law of the late King, your husband, the consort
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  Speaker 1: of Madame Henrietta, your sister, and your guest. And because
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  Speaker 1: we did all that we could to save the life
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  Speaker 1: of the Royal Martyr. We were then convinced my friend
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  Speaker 1: and I that there was some error of which we
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  Speaker 1: were the victims, and that an explanation was called for
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  Speaker 1: between His Eminence and ourselves. Now that an explanation may
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  Speaker 1: bear fruit, it is necessary that it should be quietly conducted,
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  Speaker 1: far from noise and interruption. We have therefore taken away
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur Cardinal to my friend's chateau, and there we have
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  Speaker 1: come to an understanding. Well, Madam, it proved to be
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  Speaker 1: as we supposed. There was a mistake. Monsieur de Mazarin
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  Speaker 1: had thought we had rendered service to General Cromwell instead
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  Speaker 1: of King Charles, which would have been a disgrace rebounding
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  Speaker 1: from us to him, and from him to Your Majesty,
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  Speaker 1: a dishonor which would have tainted the royalty of your
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  Speaker 1: illustrious son. We were able to prove the contrary, and
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  Speaker 1: that proof we are ready to give to your Majesty,
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  Speaker 1: calling in support of it the Auguste widow, weeping in
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  Speaker 1: the louver, where your Royal Munificence has provided for her
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  Speaker 1: a home. That proof satisfied him so completely that as
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  Speaker 1: a sign of satisfaction, he has sent me, as your
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  Speaker 1: Majesty may see to consider with you what reparation should
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  Speaker 1: be made to gentlemen unjustly treated and wrongfully persecuted. I
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  Speaker 1: listened to you, and I wonder at you, sir, said
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  Speaker 1: the Queen. In fact, I have rarely seen such excess
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  Speaker 1: of impudence. Your Majesty on your side, said d'Artagnan, is
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  Speaker 1: as much mistaken as our intentions as the Cardinal Mazarin
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  Speaker 1: has always been. You are in error, sir, answered the Queen.
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  Speaker 1: I am so little mistaken that in ten minutes you
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  Speaker 1: shall be arrested, and in an hour I shall set
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  Speaker 1: off at the head of my army to release my minister.
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  Speaker 1: I am sure your Majesty will not commit such an
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  Speaker 1: act of imprudence first, because it would be useless and
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  Speaker 1: would produce the most disastrous results. Before he could be
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  Speaker 1: possibly set free, the Cardinal would be dead. And indeed,
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  Speaker 1: so convinced is he of this that he entreated me.
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  Speaker 1: Should I find your Majesty disposed to act in this way,
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  Speaker 1: to do all I could to induce you to change
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  Speaker 1: your resolution, well, then I will content myself with arresting you, Madam.
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  Speaker 1: The possibility of my arrest has been foreseen, and should
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  Speaker 1: I not have returned by tomorrow at a certain hour.
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  Speaker 1: The next day, the Cardinal will be brought to Paris
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  Speaker 1: and delivered to the Parliament. It is evident, sir, that
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  Speaker 1: your position has kept you out of relation to men
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  Speaker 1: and affairs. Otherwise you would know that since we left Paris,
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  Speaker 1: Monsieur le Cardinal has returned thither five or six times,
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  Speaker 1: that he has there met de Beaufort, de Bouillon, the Coadjutor,
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  Speaker 1: and del Boeuf, and that not one of them had
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  Speaker 1: any desire to arrest him. Your pardon, madam, I know
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  Speaker 1: all that, and therefore my friends will conduct Monsieur le
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal neither to de Beaufort, nor to de Bouillon, nor
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  Speaker 1: to the Coadjutor, nor to del Boeuf. These gentlemen wage
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  Speaker 1: war on private account, and in buying them up by
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  Speaker 1: granting them what they wished, Monsieur Cardinal has made a
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  Speaker 1: good bargain. He will be delivered to the Parliament, members
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  Speaker 1: of which can of course be bought. But even Monsieur
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  Speaker 1: de Mazarin is not rich enough to buy the whole body,
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  Speaker 1: I think, returned Anne of Austria, fixing upon him a
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  Speaker 1: glance which in any woman's face would have expressed disdain,
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  Speaker 1: but in a queen's spread terror to those she looked upon. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: I perceive you dare to threaten the mother of your sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: Madam replied d'Artagnan. I threaten simply and solely because I
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  Speaker 1: am obliged to do so. Believe me, Madam, as true
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  Speaker 1: a thing as it is that a heart beats in
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  Speaker 1: this bosom, a heart devoted to you. Believe that you
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  Speaker 1: have been the idol of our lives that we have,
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  Speaker 1: as you well know, good Heaven risked our lives twenty
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  Speaker 1: times for your majesty. Have you, then, Madam, no compassion
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  Speaker 1: for your servants, who for twenty years have vegetated an
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  Speaker 1: obscurity without betraying in a single sigh, the solemn and
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  Speaker 1: sacred secrets they have had the honor to share with you.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me, Madam, at me whom you accuse of
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  Speaker 1: speaking loud and threateningly? What am I? A poor officer,
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  Speaker 1: fortune without protection, without a future, unless the eye of
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  Speaker 1: my Queen, which I have sought so long, rests on
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  Speaker 1: me for a moment. Look at the Comte la fere,
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  Speaker 1: a type of nobility, a flower of chivalry. He has
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  Speaker 1: taken part against his queen, or rather against her minister.
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  Speaker 1: He has not been unreasonably exacting. It seems to me.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Monsieur du vallance, that faithful soul, that arm
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  Speaker 1: of steel, who for twenty years has awaited the word
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  Speaker 1: from your lips, which will make him in rank what
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  Speaker 1: he is in sentiment and encourage. Consider in short, your people,
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  Speaker 1: who love you and who are yet famished, who have
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  Speaker 1: no other wish than to bless you, and who, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: no I am wrong. Your subjects, Madam, will never curse you.
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  Speaker 1: Say one word to them, and all will be ended.
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  Speaker 1: Peace succeed war, joy, tears, and happiness to misfortune. Anne
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  Speaker 1: of Austria looked with wonderment on the warlike countenance of d'Artagnan,
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  Speaker 1: which betrayed a singular expression of deep feeling. Why did
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  Speaker 1: you not say all this before you took action, sir?
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  Speaker 1: She said, because Madam, it was necessary to prove to
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  Speaker 1: your majesty one thing of which you doubted. That is
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  Speaker 1: that we still possess amongst us some valor, and are
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  Speaker 1: worthy of some consideration at your hands. And that valor
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  Speaker 1: would shrink from no undertaking. According to what I see,
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  Speaker 1: it has hesitated at nothing in the past, Why then,
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  Speaker 1: should it be less daring in the future. Then, in
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  Speaker 1: case of my refusal this valor, should a struggle occur,
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  Speaker 1: will even go to the length of carrying me off
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of my court, to deliver me into
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  Speaker 1: the hands of the Frond, as you propose to deliver
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  Speaker 1: my minister. We have not thought about it yet, Madam
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  Speaker 1: answered d'Artagnan with that gascon effrontery, which had in him
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  Speaker 1: the appearance of naivete. But if we four had resolved
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  Speaker 1: upon it, we should do it most certainly, I ought,
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  Speaker 1: muttered Anne to herself by this time to remember that
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  Speaker 1: these men are giants. Alas Madam exclaimed d'Artagnan, This proves
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  Speaker 1: to me that not till to day has your Majesty
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  Speaker 1: had a just idea of us, perhaps, said Anne, But
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  Speaker 1: that idea, if at last I have, your Majesty, will
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  Speaker 1: do us justice. In doing us justice, you will no
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  Speaker 1: longer treat us as men of vulgar stamp. You will
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  Speaker 1: see in me an ambassador worthy of the high interests
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  Speaker 1: he is authorized to discuss with his Sovereign. Where is
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  Speaker 1: the treaty? Here it is Anne of Austria, cast her
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  Speaker 1: eyes upon the treaty that d'Artagnan presented to her. I
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  Speaker 1: do not see here she said anything but general conditions.
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  Speaker 1: The interests of the Prince de Comtie, or of the
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  Speaker 1: Duc de Beaufort, de Bouillon and Delbeuf, and of the
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  Speaker 1: Coadjutor are herein consulted. But with regard to yours, we
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  Speaker 1: do ourselves justice, Madam. Even in assuming the high position
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  Speaker 1: that we have, we do not think ourselves worthy to
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  Speaker 1: stand near such great names. But you, I presume, have
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  Speaker 1: decided to assert your pretensions viva vote. I believe you, Madame,
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  Speaker 1: to be a great and powerful queen, and that it
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  Speaker 1: will be unworthy of your power and greatness if you
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  Speaker 1: do not recompense the arms which will bring back his
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  Speaker 1: eminence to Saint Germain. It is my intention to do so.
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  Speaker 1: Come let us hear you speak. He who has negotiated
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  Speaker 1: these matters forgive me if I begin by speaking of myself,
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  Speaker 1: But I must claim that importance which has been given
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  Speaker 1: to me not assumed by me. He who has arranged
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  Speaker 1: matters for the return of the Cardinal ought it appears
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  Speaker 1: to me, in order that his reward may not be
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  Speaker 1: unworthy of your majesty to be made commandant of the guards.
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  Speaker 1: An appointment something like that of the captain of the musketeer.
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  Speaker 1: Tis the appointment Monsieur de Treville held, you ask of me.
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  Speaker 1: The place, Madame, is vacant, and although tis a year
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  Speaker 1: since Monsieur de Treville has left it, it has not
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  Speaker 1: been filled. But it is one of the principal military
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  Speaker 1: appointments in the King's household. Monsieur de Treville was but
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  Speaker 1: a younger son of a simple Gascon family, like me, Madame.
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  Speaker 1: He occupied that post for twenty years. You have an
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  Speaker 1: answer ready for everything, replied the Queen, and she took
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  Speaker 1: from her bureau a document, which she filled up and signed. Undoubtedly, Madam,
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  Speaker 1: said d'Artagnan, taking the document and bowing. This is a
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  Speaker 1: noble reward. But everything in the world is unstable, and
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  Speaker 1: the man who happened to fall into disgrace with your
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  Speaker 1: majesty might lose this office tomorrow. What more do you want,
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  Speaker 1: asked the Queen, coloring, as she found that she had
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to deal with a mind as subtle as her own.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: A hundred thousand francs for this poor captain of musketeers
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to be paid whenever his services shall no longer be
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: acceptable to your majesty. Anne hesitated to think of the Parisians,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: soliloquized d'Artagnan, offering only the other day, by an edict
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: of the Parliament, six hundred thousand francs to any man
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: soever who would deliver up the cardinal to them, dead
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: or alive, if alive, in order to hang him, if dead,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to deny him the rights of Christian burial. Come, said Anne.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Tis reasonable, since you only ask from a queen the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: sixth of what the Parliament has proposed, and she signed
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: in order for a hundred thousand francs. Now, then she said,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: what next, Madam? My friend du Vallen is rich and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: has therefore nothing in the way of fortune to desire.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: But I think I remember that there was a question
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: between him and Monsieur Mazarin as to making his estate
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a barony. Nay, it must have been a promise a
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: country clown, said Anne of Austria. People will laugh, let them,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: answered d'Artagnan. But I am sure of one thing that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: those who laugh at him in his presence will never
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: laugh a second time. Here goes the barony, said the queen.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: She signed a patent. Now there remains the chevalier or
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the Abbe d'herblay, as your majesty pleases, Does he wish
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to be a bishop? No, Madame, something easier to grant.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: What it is that the king should deign to stand
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: godfather to the son of Madame de Longueville. The Queen smiled.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Monsieur de Longueville is of royal blood, Madame, said d'Artagnan. Yes,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: said the Queen, but his son, his son, Madam must be,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: since the husband of the son's mother is and your
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: friend has nothing more to ask for Madame de Longueville, No, madam,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: for I presume that the King, standing godfather to him,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: could do no less than present him with five hundred
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: thousand francs, giving his father also the government of Normandy.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: As to the government of Normandy, replied the Queen, I
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: think I can promise, But with regard to the present,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the Cardinal is always telling me there is no more
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: money in the royal coffers. We shall search for some, Madame,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: and I think we can find a little, And if
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: your Majesty approves, we will seek for some together. What next?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: What next, Madam? Yes, that is all. Haven't you then?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: A fourth companion. Yes, Madame, le Comte la Fere, what
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: does he ask? Nothing? There is in the world than
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: one man, who, having the power to ask, asks nothing.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: There is the Comte la Fere. Madam, The Comte la
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Fere is not a man. What is he? Then? The
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Comte la Fere is a demigod. He has not a son,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a young man, a relative, a nephew of whom Comique
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: spoke to me as being a brave boy, and who,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: with Monsieur de Chatillon brought the standards from Lens. He has,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: as your Majesty has said, a ward who is called
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the Vicomte Bragelonne. If that young man should be appointed
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to a regiment, what would his guardian say? Perhaps he
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: would accept? Perhaps yes, if your Majesty herself should beg
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: him to accept, he must indeed be a strange man. Well,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: we will reflect, and perhaps we will beg him. Are
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you satisfied, sir? There is one thing. The Queen has
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: not signed her assent to the treaty of what use
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to day. I will sign it to morrow. I can
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: assure her Majesty that if she does not sign to day,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: she will not have time to sign tomorrow. Consent then
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I beg you, Madam, to write at the bottom of
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: this schedule, which has been drawn up by Mazarin. As
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you see, I consent to ratify the treaty proposed by
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the Parisians. Anne was caught. She could not draw back.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: She signed, but scarcely had she done so, when pride
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: burst forth and she began to weep. d'Artagnan started on
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: seeing these tears. Since that period of history, queens have
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: shed tears like other women. The gascon shook his head.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: These tears from royalty melted his heart. Madam, he said, kneeling,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: look upon the unhappy man at your feet. He begs
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you to believe that at a gesture of your Majesty
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: everything will be possible to him. He has faith in himself,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: he has faith in his friends. He wishes also to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: have faith in his queen, and in proof that he
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: fears nothing, that he counts on nothing. He will restore
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Monsieur de Mazarin to your Majesty without conditions. Behold, Madam,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: here are the August signatures of your Majesty's hand. If
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you think you are right in giving them to me,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you shall do so. But from this very moment you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: are free from any obligation to keep them, and d'Artagnan,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: full of splendid pride and manly intrebidity, placed in Hans's
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: hands in a bundle the papers that he had, one
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: by one one from her with so much difficulty. There
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: are moments for if everything is not good, everything in
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: this world is not bad, in which the most rigid
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and coldest soul is softened by the tears of strong
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: emotion heart a reigning sentiment. One of these momentary impulses
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: actuated Anne d'Artagnan, when he gave way to his own feelings,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: which were in accordance with those of the queen. Had
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: accomplished more than the most astute diplomacy could have attempted.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: He was there four instantly recompensed, either for his address
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: or for his sensibility, whichever it might be termed. You
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: were right, sir, said Anne, I misunderstood you. There are
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the acts signed. I deliver them to you without compulsion.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Go and bring me back the cardinal as soon as possible,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Madam faltered d'Artagnan tis twenty years ago. I have a
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: good memory, since I had the honor behind a piece
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: of tapestry in the Hotel Deville. Of kissing one of
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: those lovely hands there is the other, replied the Queen,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and that the left hand should not be less liberal
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: than the right. She drew from her finger a diamond
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: similar to the one formerly given to him. Take and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: keep this ring in remembrance of me, Madam, said d'Artagnan, rising,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I have only one thing more to wish, which is
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: that the next thing you ask from me shall be
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: my life. And with this conclusion away peculiar to himself,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: he rose and left the room. I never rightly understood
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: those men, said the Queen, as she watched him retiring
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: from her presence. And it is now too late, for
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in a year the king will be of age. In
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours, d'Artagnan and Porthos conducted Mazarin to the Queen,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and the one received his commission, the other his patent
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: of nobility. On the same day, the Treaty of Paris
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: was signed, and it was everywhere announced that the Cardinal
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: had shut himself up for three days in order to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: draw it up with the greatest care. Here is what
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: each of the parties concerned gained by that treaty. Monsieur
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: de Comti received Dame Villiers, and having made his proofs
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: as general, he succeeded in remaining a soldier instead of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: being made cardinal. Moreover, something had been said of a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: marriage with Mazarin's niece. The idea was welcomed by the Prince,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to whom it was of little importance whom he married,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: so long as he married some one. The Duc de
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Beaufort made his entrance at court, receiving ample reparation for
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the wrongs he had suffered and all the honor due
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to his rank. Full pardon was accorded to those who
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: had aided his escape. He received also the office of Admiral,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: which had been held by his father, the Duc de
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: ven Domme, and an indemnity for his houses and castles
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: demolished by the Parliament of Bretagne. The Duc de Bouillon
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: received domains of a value equal to that of his
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: principality of Sedin, and the title of prince granted to
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: him and to those belonging to his house. The Duc
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: de Longueville gained the government of Pont de Las, five
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand francs for his wife, and the honor of
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: seeing her son held at the baptismal font by the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: young King and Henrietta of England. Aramis stipulated that Bazin
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: should officiate at that ceremony, and that Planget should furnished
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the christening sugar plums. The Duke Delboeuf obtained payment of
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: certain sums due to his wife, one hundred thousand francs
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: for his eldest son and twenty five thousand for each
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of the three others. The coadjutor alone obtained nothing. They promised,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: indeed to negotiate with the Pope for a cardinal's hat
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: for him, but he knew how little reliance should be
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: placed on such promises made by the Queen and Mazarin,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: quite contrary to the lot of Monsieur de Contille. Unable
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to be cardinal, he was obliged to remain a soldier.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And therefore, when all Paris was rejoicing in the expected
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: return of the king appointed for the next day, Gondy alone,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: in the midst of the general happiness, was dissatisfied. He
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: sent for the two men whom he was wont to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: summon when in especially bad humor. Those two men were
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the Count de Rochefort and the mendicant of Saint Eustache.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: They came with their usual promptness, and the Coadjutor spent
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: with them a part of the night end of Chapter
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: eighty eight.