Part 40 (1/2)
”I do not understand a word you are saying, neur; and if you wish nan, yourfor want of sleep, but you have coive myself, I ao to sleep in your bed in hted”
”I am under surveillance, I see”
”I will leave the roo”
”You are beyond neur,” said D'Artagnan, as he pretended to withdraw
Fouquet ran after him ”I will not lie down,” he said ”Seriously, and since you refuse to treat me as a man, and since you finesse with me, I will try and set you at bay, as a hunter does a wild boar”
”Bah!” cried D'Artagnan, pretending to smile
”I shall orderthe captain of the neur, it is very difficult”
”You will arrestwith you”
”That is quite sufficient, Monsieur d'Artagnan,” returned Fouquet, coldly ”It was not for nothing you acquired your reputation as a ence and resource; but with me all this is quite superfluous
Let us come to the point Do me a service Why do you arrestabout what you , at least!”
”This evening!” said Fouquet, turning pale, ”but to-neur Who can ever answer for the morrow?”
”Quick, quick, captain! let me speak to M d'Herblay”
”Alas! that is quite ineur I have strict orders to see that you hold no communication with any one”
”With M d'Herblay, captain--with your friend!”
”Monseigneur, is M d'Herblay the only person ho any co an air of resignation, he said: ”You are right, ht not to have evoked A fallen , even froer reason, he cannot clai fro a service”
”Monseigneur!”
”It is perfectly true, Monsieur d'Artagnan; you have always acted in the most admirable manner towards me--in such a manner, indeed, as most becomes the man who is destined to arrest ”
”Monsieur,” replied the Gascon, touched by his eloquent and noble tone of grief, ”will you--I ask it as a favor--pledge me your word as a man of honor that you will not leave this roonan, since you keep watch and ward over ainst the doneur; but that I a to look for M
d'Herblay, and, consequently, to leave you alone”