THE THREE MUSKETEERS.
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soldiers of your musketeers, sire ; it must beneficial to the service, and reflects honour
be very on them
all.".
" He will play me some scurvy trick presently." " one never has the last word with thought Treville such a man. But let me hasten, for the king may change his mind soon and, after all, it is more difficult to put a man back into the Bastile, or Fort l'Eveque, once he has got out of it, than to keep him prisoner there when they have already caught him." M. de Treville entered Fort l'Eveque triumphantly, and set at liberty his musketeer, who had not lost his calm indifference. And the first time that he saw d'Artagnan, he said to your sword-thrust to him, " You have escaped well that to Bernajoux still Jussac is now paid for but you must not be too confident." remains M. de Treville had reason to distrust the cardinal, and to think that all was not ended for scarcely had the captain of musketeers closed the door behind him before his eminence said to the king ;
;
:
;
;
;
" Now that we are alone together, we must have some Sire, serious conversation, if it please your majesty. the Duke of Buckingham has been in Paris for five days,
and
left it
only this morning."
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XVI.
WHICH THE KEEPER OF THE SEALS, SIGUIER, LOOKED MORE THAN ONCE AFTER THE BELL, THAT HE MIGHT RING IT AS HE HAD BEEN USED TO DO.
It is impossible to form an idea of the impression which these few words produced on the king. He grew red and Eale by turns, and the cardinal saw immediately that he ad regained, by a single stroke, all the ground that he had previously lost.