Part 28 (1/2)
”I told you so,” said D'Artagnan, checking him with his hand; ”and now his enan, what do you want?”
”My lord,” said D'Artagnan, ”it is twenty years since Cardinal de Richelieu ratified if Cardinal Mazarin should nan bowed
”Well, that is not ientlemen, ill see Now, Monsieur de Vallon,” said Mazarin, ”what service do you prefer, in the town or in the country?”
Porthos opened his nan, ”Monsieur de Vallon is like me, he prefers service extraordinary--that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and i to Mazarin; he fell into meditation
”And yet,” he said, ”I must admit that I sent for you to appoint you to quiet service; I have certain apprehensions--well, what is the reat noise was heard in the ante-chamber; at the same time the door of the study was burst open and a : ”My lord the cardinal! ht that so to assassinate hi his chair on the castors D'Artagnan and Porthosand the cardinal
”Well, sir,” exclaimed Mazarin, ”what's the matter? and why do you rush in here, as if you were about to penetrate a crowded er, ”I wish to speak to your euards, on duty at the donjon of Vincennes”
Mazarin, perceiving by the paleness and agitation of theof inan and Porthos should give place
D'Artagnan and Porthos withdrew to a corner of the cabinet
”Speak, monsieur, speak at once!” said Mazarin ”What is the matter?”
”The matter is, my lord, that the Duc de Beaufort has contrived to escape from the Chateau of Vincennes”
Mazarin uttered a cry and becaht the news He fell back, al, in his chair
”Escaped? Monsieur de Beaufort escaped?”
”My lord, I saw him run off from the top of the terrace”
”And you did not fire on hiny--where was he?”
”Absent”
”And La Ra in his mouth and a poniard near him”
”But the man as under hi with hinan, advancing toward the cardinal, ”it see precious time It e; the nearest frontier is sixty leagues distant”
”And who is to pursue him?” cried Mazarin
”I, pardieu!”
”And you would arrest him?”
”Why not?”
”You would arrest the Duc de Beaufort, armed, in the field?”
”If your eminence should order me to arrest the devil, I would seize hi him in”
”So would I,” said Porthos
”So would you!” said Mazarin, looking with astonishment at those two men ”But the duke will not yield himself without a furious battle”
”Very well,” said D'Artagnan, his eyes afla time since we have had a battle, eh, Porthos?”
”Battle!” cried Porthos
”And you think you can catch him?”
”Yes, if we are better uards you find here, and pursue him”
”You consome lines; ”Monsieur du Vallon, your barony is on the back of the Duc de Beaufort's horse; you have nothing to do but to overtake it As for you,him back to me, dead or alive, you nan, taking his friend by the hand
”Here I am,” smiled Porthos, with his subli with the out, ”To arms! To ar the Rue Saint Honore with the speed of the ind
”Well, baron, I proood exercise!” said the Gascon