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Do not exaggerate the service I have the happiness to renderyour Majesty.
If
werelease the prisoner thus, we shall never know the truth.
Bonacieux could
hardly hear what she said, To my Lord Duke ofBuckingham, London. That concerns
your Majesty more than me, said the cardinal. Would you dare to lift your hand
to your queen?
At half past ten--an hour after the event. As to the servant,
she had run away atthe moment of her masters arrest.
Well, I cant say I had
much choice of going or not going, for Iwas taken to him between two
guards.
Your Majestys orders shall be executed; but--But what? She is not the
less guilty, Monsieur Duke! Do you not suspect this young man of having given
bad counsel?
Thecardinal trusted him, and therein found his advantage.
It is a
thing of the highest interest, and upon which our futurefortune perhaps
depends. By your glorious father, and by yourself, whom I love andvenerate
above all the world, I swear it. And you responded to his bidding, you
imprudent man? No, God forbid, said the cardinal; only, at what hour was he
with you? Let me know what crime I have committed. Madame Bonacieuxpresented
her cheek to him. On the same day the cardinal received this letter the king
puthis customary question to him.
The queen made a curtsy, less from etiquette
than because herknees were sinking under her. cried the king, taking up
Trevilles words,police affairs! Very well, Cardinal, very well; but, meantime,
send for Monsieurthe Keeper of the Seals.
Give a ball; you know how much the
queen loves dancing.
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