Part 62 (1/2)
”Made back with an air full of respect, ”there is nothing in the world that I love and honorin arded as you shall be henceforward I entreat your forgiveness for my transport; it arose from an excess of affection, but I can prove to you that I love youyou asbefore her, and taking her by the hand, he said to her, ”Will you honor 's lips were pressed respectfully and lightly upon the young girl's tre his glance upon La Valliere, ”henceforth you are under uard Do not speak to any one of the injury I have done you, forgive others that which they may have attempted For the future, you shall be so far above all those, that, far fro you with fear, they shall be even beneath your pity” And he bowed as reverently as though he were leaving a place of worshi+p Then calling to Saint-Aignan, who approached with great humility, he said, ”I hope, comte, that Mademoiselle de la Valliere will kindly confer a little of her friendshi+p upon you, in return for that which I have vowed to her eternally”
Saint-Aignan bent his knee before La Valliere, saying, ”How happy, indeed, would such an honor make me!”
”I will send your co ”Farewell! or, rather, adieu till we et me in your prayers, I entreat”
”Oh!” cried La Valliere, ”be assured that you and Heaven are in ether”
These words of Louise elated the king, who, full of happiness, hurried Saint-Aignan down the stairs Madame had not anticipated this denouement; and neither the Naiad nor the Dryad had breathed a word about it
Chapter LX The New General of the Jesuits
While La Valliere and the king were , in their first confession of love, all the bitterness of the past, the happiness of the present, and hopes of the future, Fouquet had retired to the apartned to hi with Ara at that
”Now tell uest in an armchair and seated himself by his side, ”tell ard to the Belle-Isle affair, and whether you have received any news about it”
”Everything is going on in that direction as ish,” replied Ara has transpired of our designs”
”But what about the soldiers the king wished to send there?”
”I have received news this o”
”And how have they been treated?”
”In the best arrison?”
”The soldiers were landed at Sarzeau, and then transferred iarrison?”
”Belongs to us from this very moment”
”Are you sure of what you say, my dear Monsieur de Vannes?”
”Quite sure, and, moreover, you will see by and by how matters have turned out”
”Still you are very well aware, that, of all the garrison towns, Belle-Isle is precisely the very worst”
”I know it, and have acted accordingly; no space toperreat pity,” added Aramis, with one of those s people at the present day seek amusement, and how much, consequently, they incline to the man who procures and pays for their favorite pastimes”
”But if they amuse theh the king's et bored to death through the king's h M Fouquet, they will attach themselves to M Fouquet”
”And you informed my intendant, of course?-so that immediately on their arrival-”
”By no means; they were left alone a whole week, to weary themselves at their ease; but, at the end of the week, they cried out, saying that former officers amused themselves much better Whereupon they were told that the old officers had been able tothem to be friends of his, had froetting wearied or bored upon his estates Upon this they began to reflect Immediately afterwards, however, the intendant added, that without anticipating M Fouquet's orders, he knew his master sufficiently well to be aware that he took an interest in every gentleh he did not know the new-comers, he would do as much for them as he had done for the others”
”Excellent! and I trust that the promises were followed up; I desire, as you know, that no pro kept”
”Without a moment's loss of time, our two privateers, and your own horses, were placed at the disposal of the officers; the keys of the principal -parties, and walking excursions with such ladies as are to be found in Belle-Isle; and such other as they are enabled to enlist frohborhood, who have no fear of sea-sickness”
”And there is a fair sprinkling to be met with at Sarzeau and Vannes, I believe, your e the coast,” said Aramis, quietly
”And no about the soldiers?”
”Everything precisely the saree, you understand; the soldiers have plenty of wine, excellent provisions, and good pay”
”Very good; so that-”
”So that this garrison can be depended upon, and it is a better one than the last”
”Good”
”The result is, if Fortune favors us, so that the garrisons are changed in this manner, only every two months, that, at the end of every three years, the whole army will, in its turn, have been there; and, therefore, instead of having one regiment in our favor, we shall have fifty thousand men”
”Yes, yes; I knew perfectly well,” said Fouquet, ”that no friend could be more incomparable and invaluable than yourself, , ”all this ti our friend, Du Vallon; what has beco the three days I spent at Saint-Mande, I confess I have forgotten hiet him, however,” returned Arareased, the greatest care is being taken care of hiard to the food he eats, and the wines he drinks; I advise his in the small park, which you have kept for your own use, and he ain, he exercises histhe old oaks fly into splinters, as Milo of Crotona used to do; and, as there are no lions in the park, it is not unlikely we shall find him alive Porthos is a brave fellow”
”Yes, but in the et bored to death”
”Oh, no; he never does that”
”He will be asking questions?”
”He sees no one”
”At all events, he is looking or hoping for so or another”
”I have inspired in hi, and on that he subsists”
”What is it?”
”That of being presented to the king”
”Oh! in what character?”