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The Three Musketeers
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The Three Musketeers 92 at Prostate Health
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that I authorize their journey."
"Thanks, monsieur. You are a hundred times too good."
"Begone, then, find them instantly, and let all be done tonight!
Ha! But first write your request to Dessessart. Perhaps you had
a spy at your heels; and your visit, if it should ever be known
to the cardinal, will thus seem legitimate."
DArtagnan drew up his request, and M. de Treville, on receiving
it, assured him that by two oclock in the morning the four
leaves of absence should be at the respective domiciles of the
travelers.
"Have the goodness to send mine to Athoss residence. I should
dread some disagreeable encounter if I were to go home."
"Be easy. Adieu, and a prosperous voyage. A PROPOS," said M. de
Treville, calling him back.
DArtagnan returned.
"Have you any money?"
DArtagnan tapped the bag he had in his pocket.
"Enough?" asked M. de Treville.
"Three hundred pistoles."
"Oh, plenty! That would carry you to the end of the world.
Begone, then!"
DArtagnan saluted M. de Treville, who held out his hand to him;
dArtagnan pressed it with a respect mixed with gratitude. Since
his first arrival at Paris, he had had constant occasion to honor
this excellent man, whom he had always found worthy, loyal, and
great.
His first visit was to Aramis, at whose residence he had not been
since the famous evening on which he had followed Mme. Bonacieux.
Still further, he had seldom seen the young Musketeer; but every
time he had seen him, he had remarked a deep sadness imprinted on
his countenance.
This evening, especially, Aramis was melancholy and thoughtful.
dArtagnan asked some questions about this prolonged melancholy.
Aramis pleaded as his excuse a commentary upon the eighteenth
chapter of St. Augustine, which he was forced to write in Latin
for the following week, and which preoccupied him a good deal.
After the two friends had been chatting a few moments, a servant
from M. de Treville entered, bringing a sealed packet.
"What is that?" asked Aramis.
"The leave of absence Monsieur has asked for," replied the
lackey.
"For me! I have asked for no leave of absence."
"Hold your tongue and take it!" said dArtagnan. "And you, my
friend, there is a demipistole for your trouble; you will tell
Monsieur de Treville that Monsieur Aramis is very much obliged to
him. Go."
The lackey bowed to the ground and departed.
"What does all this mean?" asked Aramis.
"Pack up all you want for a journey of a fortnight, and follow
me."
"But I cannot leave Paris just now without knowing--"
Aramis stopped.
"What is become of her? I suppose you mean--" continued
dArtagnan.
"Become of whom?" replied Aramis.
"The woman who was here--the woman with the embroidered
handkerchief."
"Who told you there was a woman here?" replied Aramis, becoming
as pale as death.
"I saw her."
"And you know who she is?"
"I believe I can guess, at least."
"Listen!" said Aramis. "Since you appear to know so many things,
can you tell me what is become of that woman?"
"I presume that she has returned to Tours."
"To Tours? Yes, that may be. You evidently know her. But why
did she return to Tours without telling me anything?"
"Because she was in fear of being arrested."
"Why has she not written to me, then?"
"Because she was afraid of compromising you."
"dArtagnan, you restore me to life!" cried Aramis. "I fancied
myself despised, betrayed. I was so delighted to see her again!
I could not have believed she would risk her liberty for me, and
yet for what other cause could she have returned to Paris?"
"For the cause which today takes us to England."
"And what is this cause?" demanded Aramis.
"Oh, youll know it someday, Aramis; but at present I must
imitate the discretion of the doctors niece."
Aramis smiled, as he remembered the tale he had told his friends
on a certain evening. "Well, then, since she has left Paris, and
you are sure of it, dArtagnan, nothing prevents me, and I am
ready to follow you. You say we are going--"
"To see Athos now, and if you will come thither, I beg you to
make haste, for we have lost much time already. A PROPOS, inform
Bazin."
"Will Bazin go with us?" asked Aramis.
"Perhaps so. At all events, it is best that he should follow us
to Athoss."
Aramis called Bazin, and, after having ordered him to join them
at Athoss residence, said "Let us go then," at the same time
taking his cloak, sword, and three pistols, opening uselessly
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