Part 66 (1/2)
”Upon my honor, none,” replied La Valliere, firmly
”Very well, that is quite sufficient; permit me, then, to renew the assurance of , he left the roo for hi La Valliere to ask herself whether the superintendent had not lost his senses
”Well!” inquired Ara Fouquet's return, ”are you satisfied with the favorite?”
”Enchanted,” replied Fouquet; ”she is a wo”
”She did not get angry, then?”
”Far from that-she did not even seem to understand”
”To understand what?”
”To understand that I had written to her”
”She ive the letter back to you, for I presume she returned it”
”Not at all”
”At least, you satisfied yourself that she had burnt it”
”My dear Monsieur d'Herblay, I have been playing at cross-purposes for in to have had enough of this gairl pretended not to understand what I was saying to her; she denied having received any letter; therefore, having positively denied its receipt, she was unable either to return or burn it”
”Oh, oh!” said Aramis, with uneasiness, ”what is this you tell me?”
”I say that she swore most positively she had not received any letter”
”That is too much And did you not insist?”
”On the contrary, I did insist, almost impertinently even”
”And she persisted in her denial?”
”Unhesitatingly”
”And did she not contradict herself?”
”Not once”
”But, in that case, then, you have left our letter in her hands?”
”How could I do otherwise?”
”Oh! it was a great mistake”
”What the deuce would you have done in my place?”
”One could not force her, certainly, but it is very eht not to reirl's disposition is generosity itself; I looked at her eyes, and I can read eyes well”
”You think she can be relied upon?”
”From my heart I do”
”Well, I think we are mistaken”
”In ay?”
”I think that, in point of fact, as she herself told you, she did not receive the letter”
”What! do you suppose-”
”I suppose that, fro, yourthe bell A servant appeared ”Send Toby here,” he said A moment afterwards a man made his appearance, with an anxious, restless look, shrewd expression of the mouth, with short ar look upon hiate him myself?” inquired Aramis
”Do so,” said Fouquet
Ara to the lackey, when he paused ”No,” he said; ”he would see that we attach too much importance to his answer; therefore question hily placed himself at a table, his back turned towards the old attendant, whose every gesture and look he watched in a looking-glass opposite to him
”Come here, Toby,” said Fouquet to the valet, who approached with a tolerably firm step ”How did you execute my coneur,” replied the man
”But how, tellas far as Mademoiselle de la Valliere's apartment; but she was at mass, and so I placed the note on her toilette-table Is not that what you told me to do?”
”Precisely; and is that all?”
”Absolutely all, neur”
”No one was there?”
”No one”
”Did you conceal yourself as I told you?”
”Yes”