Part 10 (1/2)
”So far well,” said Araer Serve us up the best supper you can, and especially give us sohed, and left the roonan, ”tell ht upon the back of Planchet's horse”
”I'faith!” answered Aramis, ”as you see, fro his head; ”you have no oing there”
”My friend,” said Aranan had never observed whilst he was in the musketeers, ”if I did not co Paradise, which is almost the same”
”Here, then, is a puzzle for the learned,” observed D'Artagnan, ”until now they have never been able to agree as to the situation of Paradise; soris and Euphrates; it see very far away for it, while it was actually very near Paradise is at Noisy le Sec, upon the site of the archbishop's chateau People do not go out from it by the door, but by the ; one doesn't descend here by the marble steps of a peristyle, but by the branches of a liuards this elysiued his celestial name of Gabriel into that of the more terrestrial one of the Prince de Marsillac”
Arahter
”You were always a nan,” he said, ”and your witty Gascon fancy has not deserted you Yes, there is so in what you say; nevertheless, do not believe that it is Madaue on't! I shall not do so After having been so long in love with Madame de Chevreuse, you would hardly lay your heart at the feet of her mortal enemy!”
”Yes,” replied Aramis, with an absent air; ”yes, that poor duchess! I once loved her much, and to do her justice, she was very useful to us Eventually she was obliged to leave France He was a relentless ene at the portrait of the old iven orders to arrest her and would have cut off her head had she not escaped with her waiting-e adventure in I don't knohat village, with I don't knohat cure, of who but one cha her for a cavalier, offered to share it with her For she had a wonderful way of dressing as a man, that dear Marie; I know only one other wo about her: 'Laboissiere, disit, please”
Ara in a very lively ly, dear Ara nan,” replied Arauard as seldom as I could; nohen I am an abbe I say as few masses as I can But to return to our duchess”
”Which--the duchess de Chevreuse or the duchess de Longueville?”
”Have I not already told you that there is nothing between ueville? Little flirtations, perhaps, and that's all No, I spoke of the duchess de Chevreuse; did you see her after her return fro's death?”
”Yes, she is still beautiful”
”Yes,” said Araood advice, by which she did not profit I ventured to tell her that Mazarin was the lover of Anne of Austria She wouldn't believethat she knew Anne of Austria, as too proud to love such a worthless coxcoed into the cabal headed by the Duke of Beaufort; and the 'coxcomb' arrested De Beaufort and banished Madanan, ”that she has had leave to return to France?”
”Yes she is co to commit some fresh folly or another”
”Oh, but this time perhaps she will follow your advice”
”Oh, this tied”
”In that respect unlike you, my dear Aramis, for you are still the saant figure, still your feminine hands, which are admirably suited to a prelate”
”Yes,” replied Aramis, ”I arowing old? I anan sree on one point: what age shall we be in future?”
”How?”
”Formerly I was your junior by two or three years, and if I am not mistaken I am turned forty years old”
”Indeed! Then 'tis I who aist By your reckoning I must be forty-three at least The devil I am! Don't let it out at the Hotel Rambouillet; it would ruin nan ”I never go there”
”Why, what in the world,” cried Ara? Bazin! Hurry up there, you rascal; we are er and thirst!”
Bazin entered at thata bottle in each hand
”At last,” said Aramis, ”we are ready, are we?”
”Yes, monsieur, quite ready,” said Bazin; ”but it tookup all the----”
”Because you always think you have on your shoulders your beadle's robe, and spend all your ti that if in polishi+ng your chapel utensils you forget how to brighten up es and will see that you are roasted on it”
Bazin, scandalized, nan, more surprised than ever at the tone and ly with those of the Musketeer Ara ide-open eyes at the face of his friend
Bazin quickly covered the table with a dailded, perfunan was quite overcome
”But you expected some one then?” asked the officer
”Oh,” said Aramis, ”I always try to be prepared; and then I knew you were seeking me”
”From whom?”
”From Master Bazin, to be sure; he took you for the devil, er that threatened ain a companion so wicked as an officer ofhis hands supplicatingly
”Come, no hypocrisy! you know that I don't like it You will do much better to open theand let down some bread, a chicken and a bottle of wine to your friend Planchet, who has been this last hour killing hi his hands”
Planchet, in fact, had bedded and fed his horses, and then co back under thehad repeated two or three tireed upon
Bazin obeyed, fastened to the end of a cord the three articles designated and let them down to Planchet, who then went satisfied to his shed
”Now to supper,” said Araan to cut up fowls, partridges and hanan; ”do you live in this way always?”
”Yes, pretty well The coadjutor has given res, on account of ed as my cook the cook who lived with Lafollone--you know the man I mean?--the friend of the cardinal, and the farace after dinner used to be, 'Good Lord, do est what I have eaten'”
”Nevertheless he died of indigestion, in spite of his grace,” said D'Artagnan
”What can you expect?” replied Aranation ”Every man that's born must fulfil his destiny”
”If it be not an indelicate question,” resurown rich?”
”Oh, Heaven! no Ia little benefice of a thousand crowns the prince gave me”
”And how do you make your twelve thousand francs? By your poeiven up poetry, except now and then to write a drinking song, soram; I compose sermons, my friend”