Part 113 (1/2)
”That is quite another thing You strongly resisted, then?”
”We had three of our men crushed to death, monsieur!”
”But you killed nobody yourselves?”
”Monsieur, a few of the rioters were left upon the square, and one a them as not a common man”
”Who was he?”
”A certain Menneville, upon who time had an eye”
”Menneville!” cried Colbert, ”what, he who killed Rue de la Huchette, a worthy man anted a fat fowl?”
”Yes, monsieur; the same”
”And did this Menneville also cry, 'Vive Colbert'?”
”Louder than all the rest; like a rew dark and wrinkled A kind of auished, like the light of gloorrass ”Then you say,” resumed the deceived intendant, ”that the initiative came from the people? Menneville was , and he kneell Menneville belonged to the Abbe Fouquet--the affair originated with Fouquet; does not everybody know that the condemned were his friends fronan, ”and thus are all my doubts cleared up I repeat it, Monsieur Fouquet entlemanly man”
”And,” continued Colbert, ”are you quite sure Menneville is dead?”
D'Artagnan thought the time was come for him to make his appearance
”Perfectly,suddenly
”Oh! is that you, monsieur?” said Colbert
”In person,” replied the musketeer with his deliberate tone; ”it appears that you had in Menneville a pretty enemy”
”It was not I, ”
”Double brute!” thought D'Artagnan, ”to think to play the great man and the hypocrite with me Well,” continued he to Colbert, ”I a; will you take upon you to tell his majesty, ive e me to tell his majesty, monsieur? Be precise, if you please,” said Colbert, in a sharp voice, tuned beforehand to hostility
”I give you no conan, with that calht it would be easy for you to announce to histhere by chance, did justice upon Menneville and restored order to things”
Colbert opened his eyes and interrogated the chief of the watch with a look--”Ah! it is very true,” said the latter, ”that this gentleman saved us”
”Why did you not tell me, monsieur, that you came to relateis explained, and more favorably for you than for anybody else”