Part 79 (1/2)
”There exists another man, then, who does not think as M Colbert thinks,” said the surintendant
”How this M Colbert looination! He is worse than fever!”
”Oh! I have good cause,” said Fouquet ”Judge for yourself” And he related the details of the course of the lighters, and the hypocritical persecution of Colbert ”Is not this a clear sign of nan became very serious ”That is true,” he said ”Yes; it has an unsavory odor, as M de Treville used to say” And he fixed on M
Fouquet his intelligent and significant look
”A bringing et me away from Paris, where I have so many creatures, and to possess himself of Belle-Isle?”
”Where M d'Herblay is,” added D'Artagnan Fouquet raised his head ”As for nan, ”I can assure you the king has said nothing tocommandedabout it to M de Gesvres”
”My friend”
”To M de Gesvres, yes, neur,” continued the e different fro, ade of musketeers, which is apparently superfluous, as the country is quite quiet”
”A brigade!” said Fouquet, raising himself upon his elbow
”Ninety-six horseneur The sa MM de Chalais, de Cinq-Mars, and Montmorency”
Fouquet pricked up his ears at these words, pronounced without apparent value ”And what else?” said he
”Oh! nothing but insignificant orders; such as guarding the castle, guarding every lodging, allowing none of M de Gesvres's guards to occupy a single post”
”And as to myself,” cried Fouquet, ”what orders had you?”
”As to you, nan, my safety, my honor, perhaps my life are at stake
You would not deceive me?”
”I?--to what end? Are you threatened? Only there really is an order with respect to carriages and boats--”
”An order?”
”Yes; but it cannot concern you--a simple measure of police”
”What is it, captain?--what is it?”
”To forbid all horses or boats to leave Nantes, without a pass, signed by the king”
”Great God! but--”
D'Artagnan began to laugh ”All that is not to be put into execution before the arrival of the king at Nantes So that you see plainly, neur, the order in nowise concerns you”