[The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Musketeers 11 IN WHICH THE PLOT THICKENS 15/26
This I ask of you in the name of the interest with which I inspire you, in the name of the service you have rendered me and which I never shall forget while I have life.
Rather, place faith in what I tell you.
Have no more concern about me; I exist no longer for you, any more than if you had never seen me." "Must Aramis do as much as I, madame ?" said d'Artagnan, deeply piqued. "This is the second or third time, monsieur, that you have repeated that name, and yet I have told you that I do not know him." "You do not know the man at whose shutter you have just knocked? Indeed, madame, you believe me too credulous!" "Confess that it is for the sake of making me talk that you invent this story and create this personage." "I invent nothing, madame; I create nothing.
I only speak that exact truth." "And you say that one of your friends lives in that house ?" "I say so, and I repeat it for the third time; that house is one inhabited by my friend, and that friend is Aramis." "All this will be cleared up at a later period," murmured the young woman; "no, monsieur, be silent." "If you could see my heart," said d'Artagnan, "you would there read so much curiosity that you would pity me and so much love that you would instantly satisfy my curiosity.
We have nothing to fear from those who love us." "You speak very suddenly of love, monsieur," said the young woman, shaking her head. "That is because love has come suddenly upon me, and for the first time; and because I am only twenty." The young woman looked at him furtively. "Listen; I am already upon the scent," resumed d'Artagnan.
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