As for the vicomte, he laughed.
"You laugh, Monsieur ?" said D'Herouville, coldly.

His voice was not unpleasant.
"Why, yes," replied the vicomte.

"Has Mazarin published an edict forbidding a man to move his diaphragm?
You know nothing about the paper, then ?" "Madame de Brissac knows where it is," was the startling declaration.
"I ask you again, Messieurs, have you seen her ?" "She is in Rochelle," said the vicomte.

How many men, he wondered, had been trapped, by madame's eyes?
"Where is she ?" eagerly.
"He lies!" thought Victor.

"He knows madame has no paper." "Where she is just now I do not know." "She is to sail for Quebec at one o'clock," said the poet.
There was admiration in the vicomte's glance.