Part 114 (1/2)
”I have been thinking of what you said just now,” replied he
”About what,of canals and marshes in which people are drowned”
”Well!”
”Well! if they are drowned, it is for want of a boat, a plank, or a stick”
”Of a stick, however short it nan
”Exactly,” said Colbert ”And, therefore, I never heard of an instance of a _nan became very pale with joy, and in a not very firm voice, ”People would be very proud of me in my country,” said he, ”if I were a _marechal_ of France; but a man must have commanded an expedition in chief to obtain the _baton_”
”Monsieur!” said Colbert, ”here is in this pocket-book which you will study, a plan of can you will have to lead a body of troops to carry out in the next spring” [12]
D'Artagnan took the book, tre those of Colbert, the minister pressed the hand of the musketeer loyally
”Monsieur,” said he, ”we had both a revenge to take, one over the other
I have begun; it is now your turn!”
”I will do you justice, nan, ”and i that the first opportunity that shall offer, he may depend upon a victory, or to behold me dead--_or both_”
”Then I will have the _fleurs-de-lis_ for your _marechal's baton_ prepared immediately,” said Colbert
On the otiate the neutrality of Spain, canan at his hotel
”Let us love each other for four,” said D'Artagnan ”We are now but two”
”And you will, perhaps, never see nan,” said Aramis; ”if you kne I have loved you! I am old, I am extinct--ah, I anan, ”you will live longer than I shall: diplomacy commands you to live; but, for my part, honor condemns me to die”
”Bah! such men as we are, monsieur le lory”
”Ah!” replied D'Artagnan, with a melancholy smile, ”I assure you, monsieur le duc, I feel very little appetite for either”
They once more embraced, and, two hours after, separated--forever
The Death of D'Artagnan
Contrary to that which generally happens, whether in politics or e recalled M de Guiche, and banished M le Chevalier de Lorraine; so that Monsieur became ill in consequence Madame set out for London, where she applied herself so earnestly to make her brother, Charles II, acquire a taste for the political counsels of Madeland and France was signed, and the English vessels, ballasted by a few ainst the fleets of the United Provinces
Charles II had proood counsels; he made her duchess of Ports vessels, munitions, victories He kept his word, as is well known At length Aramis, upon whose promises there was least dependence to be placed, wrote Colbert the following letter, on the subject of the negotiations which he had undertaken at Madrid: