Beside her horse another's always gallops, which is not mine; in her ear another's caressing voice, not mine, unceasingly vibrates.

Raoul, for three days past my brain has been on fire; flame, not blood, courses through my veins.

That shadow must be driven away, that smile must be quenched; that voice must be silenced." "You wish Monsieur's death," exclaimed Raoul.
"No, no, I am not jealous of the husband; I am jealous of the lover." "Of the lover ?" said Raoul.
"Have you not observed it, you who were formerly so keen-sighted ?" "Are you jealous of the Duke of Buckingham ?" "To the very death." "Again jealous ?" "This time the affair will be easy to arrange between us; I have taken the initiative, and have sent him a letter." "It was you, then, who wrote to him ?" "How do you know that ?" "I know it, because he told me so.

Look at this;" and he handed De Guiche the letter he had received nearly at the same moment as his own.
De Guiche read it eagerly, and said, "He is a brave man, and more than that, a gallant man." "Most certainly the duke is a gallant man; I need not ask if you wrote to him in a similar style." "He will show you my letter when you call on him on my behalf." "But that is almost out of the question." "What is ?" "That I shall call on him for that purpose." "Why so ?" "The duke consults me as you do." "I suppose you will give _me_ the preference! Listen to me, Raoul, I wish you to tell his Grace--it is a very simple matter--that to-day, to-morrow, the following day, or any other day he may choose, I will meet him at Vincennes." "Reflect, De Guiche." "I thought I told you I have reflected." "The duke is a stranger here; he is on a mission which renders his person inviolable....

Vincennes is close to the Bastile." "The consequences concern _me_." "But the motive for this meeting?
What motive do you wish me to assign ?" "Be perfectly easy on that score, he will not ask any.