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The Vicomte de Bragelonne

CHAPTER XLV
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Pass on!" "I believe I have exhausted pride.

There is another sin which I am afraid to qualify." "I can qualify it myself.

Tell it." "A great sin, reverend father!" "We shall judge, monseigneur." "You cannot fail to have heard of certain relations which I have had--with her majesty the queen-mother;--the malevolent--" "The malevolent, my lord, are fools.

Was it not necessary for the good of the state and the interests of the young king, that you should live in good intelligence with the queen?
Pass on, pass on!" "I assure you," said Mazarin, "you remove a terrible weight from my breast." "These are all trifles!--look for something serious." "I have had much ambition, father." "That is the march of great minds and things, my lord." "Even the longing for the tiara ?" "To be pope is to be the first of Christians.

Why should you not desire that ?" "It has been printed that, to gain that object, I had sold Cambria to the Spaniards." "You have, perhaps, yourself written pamphlets without severely persecuting pamphleteers." "Then, reverend father, I have truly a clean breast.


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