But do not avenge your seigneur, do not think of avenging him.
You would sacrifice yourselves in vain--you, your wives and children, your property, your liberty.

Lay down your arms, my friends--lay down your arms! since the king commands you so to do--and retire peaceably to your dwellings.

It is I who ask you to do so; it is I who beg you to do so; it is I who now, in the hour of need, command you to do so, in the name of M.Fouquet." The crowd collected under the window uttered a prolonged roar of anger and terror.

"The soldiers of Louis XIV.

have reached the island," continued Aramis.