[A Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandra Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookA Man in the Iron Mask ChapterXXXII 9/16
Who knows ?" "Try, if you please, but I am convinced you will not succeed." "I will not attempt to console him.
I will serve him." "You will ?" "Doubtless, I will.
Do you think this would be the first time a woman had repented of an infidelity? I will go to him, I tell you." Athos shook his head, and continued his walk alone, D'Artagnan, cutting across the brambles, rejoined Raoul and held out his hand to him.
"Well, Raoul! You have something to say to me ?" "I have a kindness to ask of you," replied Bragelonne. "Ask it, then." "You will some day return to France ?" "I hope so." "Ought I to write to Mademoiselle de la Valliere ?" "No, you must not." "But I have many things to say to her." "Go and say them to her, then." "Never!" "Pray, what virtue do you attribute to a letter, which your speech might not possess ?" "Perhaps you are right." "She loves the king," said D'Artagnan, bluntly; "and she is an honest girl." Raoul started.
"And you, you whom she abandons, she, perhaps, loves better than she does the king, but after another fashion." "D'Artagnan, do you believe she loves the king ?" "To idolatry.
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