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The Vicomte de Bragelonne

CHAPTER LXXIV
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Do you see any inconvenience in having an army at the end of a year, instead of two regiments?
Do you not see that your garrison of to-day will make you partisans at La Rochelle, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse--in short, wherever they may be sent to?
Go to the king, monsieur; go; time flies, and D'Artagnan, while we are losing time, is flying, like an arrow, along the high-road." "Monsieur d'Herblay, you know that each word from you is a germ which fructifies in my thoughts.

I will go to the Louvre." "Instantly, will you not ?" "I only ask time to change my dress." "Remember that D'Artagnan has no need to pass through Saint-Mande; but will go straight to the Louvre; that is cutting off an hour from the advantage that yet remains to us." "D'Artagnan may have everything except my English horses.

I shall be at the Louvre in twenty-five minutes." And, without losing a second, Fouquet gave orders for his departure.
Aramis had only time to say to him, "Return as quickly as you go; for I shall await you impatiently." Five minutes after, the superintendent was flying along the road to Paris.

During this time, Aramis desired to be shown the chamber in which Porthos was sleeping.

At the door of Fouquet's cabinet he was folded in the arms of Pelisson, who had just heard of his arrival, and had left his office to see him.


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