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A Man in the Iron Mask

ChapterXXXVI
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D'Artagnan's eyes were quicker than those of the ladies; he had seen and known them, whilst they did not recognize him; and as they laughed at their fright, pressing each other's hands,-- "Humph!" said D'Artagnan, "the old duchesse is no more inaccessible to friendship than formerly.

_She_ paying her court to the mistress of M.
Colbert! Poor M.Fouquet! that presages you nothing good!" He rode on.

M.Colbert got into his carriage and the distinguished trio commenced a sufficiently slow pilgrimage toward the wood of Vincennes.
Madame de Chevreuse set down Madame Vanel at her husband's house, and, left alone with M.Colbert, chatted upon affairs whilst continuing her ride.

She had an inexhaustible fund of conversation, that dear duchesse, and as she always talked for the ill of others, though ever with a view to her own good, her conversation amused her interlocutor, and did not fail to leave a favorable impression.
She taught Colbert, who, poor man! was ignorant of the fact, how great a minister he was, and how Fouquet would soon become a cipher.

She promised to rally around him, when he should become surintendant, all the old nobility of the kingdom, and questioned him as to the preponderance it would be proper to allow La Valliere.


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