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The Three Musketeers

61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
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"What?
Are you sure ?" "That she is called so?
Yes, madame.

Do you know her ?" Milady smiled to herself at the idea which had occurred to her that this might be her old chambermaid.

There was connected with the remembrance of this girl a remembrance of anger; and a desire of vengeance disordered the features of Milady, which, however, immediately recovered the calm and benevolent expression which this woman of a hundred faces had for a moment allowed them to lose.
"And when can I see this young lady, for whom I already feel so great a sympathy ?" asked Milady.
"Why, this evening," said the abbess; "today even.

But you have been traveling these four days, as you told me yourself.

This morning you rose at five o'clock; you must stand in need of repose.


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