Part 26 (1/2)
”This gentleman requests me to ask you,” said Baisemeaux, ”if you are aware of the cause of your i man, unaffectedly, ”I am not”
”That is hardly possible,” said Aras in spite of hinorant of the cause of your detention, you would be furious”
”I was so during the early days of my imprisonment”
”Why are you not so now?”
”Because I have reflected”
”That is strange,” said Aramis
”Is it not odd?” said Baisemeaux
”May one venture to ask you, monsieur, on what you have reflected?”
”I felt that as I had committed no crime, Heaven could not punish me”
”What is a prison, then,” inquired Aramis, ”if it be not a punish man; ”all that I can tell you now is the very opposite of what I felt seven years ago”
”To hear you converse, to witness your resignation, one ht almost believe that you liked your imprisonment?”
”I endure it”
”In the certainty of recovering your freedom some day, I suppose?”
”I have no certainty; hope, I have, and that is all; and yet I acknowledge that this hope becoain be free, since you have already been so?”
”That is precisely the reason,” replied the youngliberty; why should I have been imprisoned at all if it had been intended to release me afterwards?”
”How old are you?”
”I do not know”
”What is your naotten the name by which I was called”
”Who are your parents?”
”I never knew theht you up?”
”They did not callhere?”
”I loved my nurse, and my flowers”
”Was that all?”
”I also loved ret your nurse and your valet?”
”I wept very much when they died”
”Did they die since you have been here, or before you ca before I was carried off”
”Both at the same time?”
”Yes, both at the same time”
”In what manner were you carried off?”
”A e, which was closed and locked, and brought ain?”
”He was masked”
”Is this not an extraordinary tale?” said Baisemeaux, in a low tone of voice, to Aramis, who could hardly breathe
”It is indeed extraordinary,” he murmured
”But what is still more extraordinary is, that he has never told me so much as he has just told you”
”Perhaps the reason may be that you have never questioned him,” said Aramis
”It's possible,” replied Baisemeaux; ”I have no curiosity Have you looked at the room? it's a fine one, is it not?”
”Very er he had nothing like it before he ca towards the young man, he said, ”Do you not remee lady or gentleman?”
”Yes, indeed; thrice by a woe, and entered covered with a veil, which she raised ere together and alone”
”Do you remember that woman?”
”Yes”
”What did she say to you?”
The young man smiled mournfully, and then replied, ”She inquired, as you have just done, if I were happy, and if I were getting weary”
”What did she do on arriving, and on leaving you?”
”She pressed me in her arms, held me in her embrace, and kissed me”