Part 51 (1/2)
”Give it to neur”
”And that, if you refuse me, I will have you and all your officers arrested on the spot”
”Before you coneur, you will reflect,” said Baisemeaux, who had turned very pale, ”that ill only obey an order signed by the king; and that it will be just as easy for you to obtain one to see Marchiali as to obtain one to do me so much injury; me, too, who am perfectly innocent”
”True True!” cried Fouquet, furiously; ”perfectly true M de Baiseovernor towards him, ”do you knohy I aneur; and allowall over--in fact, I feel as though I were about to faint”
”You will stand a better chance of fainting outright, Monsieur Baisemeaux, when I return here at the head of ten thousand neur, you are losing your senses”
”When I have roused the whole population of Paris against you and your accursed towers, and have battered open the gates of this place, and hanged you to the topneur! for pity's sake!”
”I give you ten minutes to make up your mind,” added Fouquet, in a calm voice ”I will sit down here, in this armchair, and wait for you; if, in ten minutes' time, you still persist, I leave this place, and you may think me as mad as you like Then--you shall _see!_”
Baiseround like a le syllable; whereupon Fouquet seized a pen and ink, and wrote:
”Order for M le Prevot des Marchands to asseuard and to 's ied his shoulders Fouquet wrote:
”Order for the Duc de Bouillon and M le Prince de Conde to assuuards, and to 's immediate service”
Baisemeaux reflected Fouquet still wrote:
”Order for every soldier, citizen, or gentleman to seize and apprehend, wherever he may be found, le Chevalier d'Herblay, Eveque de Vannes, and his accoovernor of the Bastile, suspected of the crineur!” cried Baisele jot of the whole matter; but so many misfortunes, even were it ht happen here in a couple of hours, that the king, by who in withdrawing the countersign before this flood of ineur, you shall see Marchiali”
Fouquet darted out of the room, followed by Baisemeaux as he wiped the perspiration frorace for _me!_”
”Walk faster,” replied Fouquet
Baisen to the jailer to precede them He was afraid of his companion, which the latter could not fail to perceive
”A truce to this child's play,” he said, roughly ”Let the man remain here; take the keys yourself, and show le person, do you understand,to take place here”
”Ah!” said Baiseain!” cried M Fouquet ”Ah! say 'no' at once, and I will leave the Bastile and will myself carry my own dispatches”
Baisemeaux bowed his head, took the keys, and unaccompanied, except by the her they advanced up the spiral staircase, the more clearly did certain muffled murmurs become distinct appeals and fearful imprecations
”What is that?” asked Fouquet
”That is your Marchiali,” said the governor; ”this is the way these lance nant with injurious allusion, as far as Fouquet was concerned, than politeness The latter trenized in one cry 's voice He paused on the staircase, snatching the bunch of keys fro to dash out his brains with one of them ”Ah!” he cried, ”M d'Herblay did not say a word about that”