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A Man in the Iron Mask

ChapterXXXIX
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Do not enter.

A white horse is in waiting for you behind the esplanade!" Fouquet recognized the writing and zeal of Gourville.

Not being willing that, if any evil happened to himself, this paper should compromise a faithful friend, the surintendant was busy tearing it into a thousand morsels, spread about by the wind from the balustrade of the terrace.
D'Artagnan found him watching the snowflake fluttering of the last scraps in space.
"Monsieur," said he, "the king awaits you." Fouquet walked with a deliberate step along the little corridor, where MM.

de Brienne and Rose were at work, whilst the Duc de Saint-Aignan, seated on a chair, likewise in the corridor, appeared to be waiting for orders, with feverish impatience, his sword between his legs.

It appeared strange to Fouquet that MM.


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