Part 86 (1/2)
”I hope so, monsieur”
”But, take care, Raoul! suppose she did not wait? Ah, you are young, so confiding, so loyal! Woeable”
”You have never spoken ill to me of women, monsieur; you have never had to complain of them; why should you doubt of Mademoiselle de la Valliere?”
”That is true,” said Athos, casting down his eyes; ”I have never spoken ill to you of women; I have never had to coave birth to a suspicion; but e are looking forward, we o even to exceptions, even to improbabilities! If, I say, Mademoiselle de la Valliere should not wait for you?”
”How, monsieur?”
”If she turned her eyes another way”
”If she looked favorably upon another, do you ony
”Exactly”
”Well, monsieur, I would kill him,” said Raoul, simply, ”and all the men whom Mademoiselle de la Valliere should choose, until one of them had killed me, or Mademoiselle de la Valliere had restored ht,” resuitated voice, ”that you called my just now your God, your law in this world”
”Oh!” said Raoul, tre, ”you would forbid me the duel?”
”Suppose I did forbid it, Raoul?”
”You would not forbid me to hope, monsieur; consequently you would not forbid me to die”
Athos raised his eyes toward the vicomte He had pronounced these words with thesilence, ”enough of this subject, upon which we both go too far Live as well as you are able, Raoul, perform your duties, love Mademoiselle de la Valliere; in a word, act like a e of a et that I love you tenderly, and that you profess to lovethe hand of Athos to his heart
”Enough, dear boy, leave land with me; you owe hireat pleasure I love Monsieur d'Artagnan exceedingly”
”You are right in doing so; he is a worthy man and a brave cavalier”
”Who loves you dearly”
”I am sure of that Do you know his address?”
”At the Louvre, I suppose, or wherever the king is Does he not conan is absent on leave; he is resting for awhile Do not, therefore, seek him at the posts of his service You will hear of him at the house of a certain Planchet”
”His forrocer”
”I know; Rue des Lombards?”