14/16 Tell us news of yourself as often as you can; that is to say, as often as you can with safety. I embrace you. "Dear Constance! I have at length, then, intelligence of you. She lives; she is in safety in a convent; she is at Bethune! Where is Bethune, Athos ?" "Why, upon the frontiers of Artois and of Flanders. The siege once over, we shall be able to make a tour in that direction." "And that will not be long, it is to be hoped," said Porthos; "for they have this morning hanged a spy who confessed that the Rochellais were reduced to the leather of their shoes. |