Part 45 (1/2)
”Good heavens!”
”Oh! that is not all Do you also remember that letter you wrote to La Valliere?”
”Alas! yes”
”And that proclaims you a traitor and a suborner”
”Why should he have pardoned me, then?”
”We have not yet arrived at that part of our argument I wish you to be quite convinced of the fact itself Observe this well: the king knows you to be guilty of an appropriation of public funds Oh! of course _I_ know that you have done nothing of the kind; but, at all events, the king has seen the receipts, and he can do no other than believe you are incri your pardon, I do not see--”
”You will see presently, though The king,read your love-letter to La Valliere, and the offers you there ard to that young lady; you will admit that, I suppose?”
”Certainly Pray conclude”
”In the feords The king, we may henceforth assume, is your powerful, ireed But am I, then, so powerful, that he has not dared to sacrificehis hatred, with all the iven him as a hold upon me?”
”It is clear, beyond all doubt,” pursued Ara has quarreled with you--irreconcilably”
”But, since he has absolved me--”
”Do you believe it likely?” asked the bishop, with a searching look
”Without believing in his sincerity, I believe it in the accoed his shoulders
”But why, then, should Louis XIV have commissioned you to tell ed !” said the superintendent, stupefied ”But, that order--”
”Oh! yes You are quite right There _is_ an order, certainly;” and these words were pronounced by Arae a tone, that Fouquet could not resist starting
”You are concealing so from me, I see What is it?”
Araers over his chin, but said nothing
”Does the king exile auess where a thing has been hidden, and are infor near to it, or going away from it”
”Speak, then”