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have an influence over your life, these secrets must
become mine."
"Beware of what you do!" cried the young woman, in a manner so
serious as to make dArtagnan start in spite of himself. "Oh,
meddle in nothing which concerns me. Do not seek to assist me in
that which I am accomplishing. This I ask of you in the name of
the interest with which I inspire you, in the name of the service
you have rendered me and which I never shall forget while I have
life. Rather, place faith in what I tell you. Have no more
concern about me; I exist no longer for you, any more than if you
had never seen me."
"Must Aramis do as much as I, madame?" said dArtagnan, deeply
piqued.
"This is the second or third time, monsieur, that you have
repeated that name, and yet I have told you that I do not know
him."
"You do not know the man at whose shutter you have just knocked?
Indeed, madame, you believe me too credulous!"
"Confess that it is for the sake of making me talk that you
invent this story and create this personage."
"I invent nothing, madame; I create nothing. I only speak that
exact truth."
"And you say that one of your friends lives in that house?"
"I say so, and I repeat it for the third time; that house is one
inhabited by my friend, and that friend is Aramis."
"All this will be cleared up at a later period," murmured the
young woman; "no, monsieur, be silent."
"If you could see my heart," said dArtagnan, "you would there
read so much curiosity that you would pity me and so much love
that you would instantly satisfy my curiosity. We have nothing
to fear from those who love us."
"You speak very suddenly of love, monsieur," said the young
woman, shaking her head.
"That is because love has come suddenly upon me, and for the
first time; and because I am only twenty."
The young woman looked at him furtively.
"Listen; I am already upon the scent," resumed dArtagnan.
"About three months ago I was near having a duel with Aramis
concerning a handkerchief resembling the one you showed to the
woman in his house--for a handkerchief marked in the same manner,
I am sure."
"Monsieur," said the young woman, "you weary me very much, I
assure you, with your questions."
"But you, madame, prudent as you are, think, if you were to be
arrested with that handkerchief, and that handkerchief were to be
seized, would you not be compromised?"
"In what way? The initials are only mine--C. B., Constance
Bonacieux."
"Or Camille de Bois-Tracy."
"Silence, monsieur! Once again, silence! Ah, since the dangers
I incur on my own account cannot stop you, think of those you may
yourself run!"
"Me?"
"Yes; there is peril of imprisonment, risk of life in knowing
me."
"Then I will not leave you."
"Monsieur!" said the young woman, supplicating him and clasping
her hands together, "monsieur, in the name of heaven, by the
honor of a soldier, by the courtesy of a gentleman, depart!
There, there midnight sounds! That is the hour when I am
expected."
"Madame," said the young man, bowing; "I can refuse nothing asked
of me thus. Be content; I will depart."
"But you will not follow me; you will not watch me?"
"I will return home instantly."
"Ah, I was quite sure you were a good and brave young man," said
Mme. Bonacieux, holding out her hand to him, and placing the
other upon the knocker of a little door almost hidden in the
wall.
DArtagnan seized the hand held out to him, and kissed it
ardently.
"Ah! I wish I had never seen you!" cried dArtagnan, with that
ingenuous roughness which women often prefer to the affectations
of politeness, because it betrays the depths of the thought and
proves that feeling prevails over reason.
"Well!" resumed Mme. Bonacieux, in a voice almost caressing, and
pressing the hand of dArtagnan, who had not relinquished hers,
"well: I will not say as much as you do; what is lost for today
may not be lost forever. Who knows, when I shall be at liberty,
that I may not satisfy your curiosity?"
"And will you make the same promise to my love?" cried
dArtagnan, beside himself with joy.
"Oh, as to that, I do not engage myself. That depends upon the
sentiments with which you may inspire me."
"Then today, madame--"
"Oh, today, I am no further than gratitude."
"Ah! You are too charming," said dArtagnan,
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