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The Three Musketeers

14 THE MAN OF MEUNG
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Send me the keeper of the seals, Seguier." "And that man, what has your Eminence done with him ?" "What man ?" asked the cardinal.
"That Bonacieux." "I have done with him all that could be done.

I have made him a spy upon his wife." The Comte de Rochefort bowed like a man who acknowledges the superiority of the master as great, and retired.
Left alone, the cardinal seated himself again and wrote a letter, which he secured with his special seal.

Then he rang.

The officer entered for the fourth time.
"Tell Vitray to come to me," said he, "and tell him to get ready for a journey." An instant after, the man he asked for was before him, booted and spurred.
"Vitray," said he, "you will go with all speed to London.

You must not stop an instant on the way.


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