Part 25 (1/2)
”I shall renan bowed
”And you know I have a good
”Yes, sire; and yet I should desire that that memory should fail your et all the miseries I have been forced to spread before your eyes Your majesty is so much above the poor and the mean, that I hope--”
”My majesty, reat and s luster to sonan--adieu: you are free”
And the king, with a hoarse sob, which was lost in his throat, passed quickly into the next roonan took up his hat from the table on which he had thrown in, and went out
Chapter XV The Proscribed
D'Artagnan had not reached the bottoentleive you, monsieur,” said he
”I am at yourbegan to write the following letter, which cost hi like a feeling of triulittered in his eyes:
”MY LORD CARDINAL,--Thanks to your good counsels, and, above all, thanks to your fir a weakness unworthy of a king You have too ably arranged ratitude not to stop me at the mo to wish to make my life turn from the course you had marked out for it Certainly it would have been ahad taken place between me and my minister
This, however, would certainly have happened if I had made your niece my wife I a to the accomplishment of my destiny I am prepared, then, to wed the infanta, Maria Theresa You may at once open the conference--Your affectionate LOUIS”
The king, after reperusing the letter, sealed it himself
”This letter for entle with anxiety
”Well?” asked the entleman, ”here is a letter for his eminence”
”A letter! Ah! we expected one after the little journey of the ”
”Oh! you know, then, that his s to the duties of our charge to know everything And his majesty prays and ihed frequently whilst he riting”
”Yes, yes, yes; we understand all that; people sigh sorief,did not look very happy when he returned, monsieur”
”You did not see clearly Besides, you only saw his majesty on his return, for he was only accouards But I had his eh it when he was tired, and I am sure they both wept”
”Well! was it for happiness they wept?”
”No, but for love, and they vowed to each other a thousand tendernesses, which the king asks no better to keep Now this letter is a beginning of the execution”
”And what does his eminence think of this love, which is, by the bye, no secret to anybody?”