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The Three Musketeers

8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
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No, I am wrong.

On the contrary, that simplifies the matter greatly.

If your man is mine, with one blow I shall obtain two revenges, that's all; but where to find this man ?" "I know not." "Have you no information as to his abiding place ?" "None.

One day, as I was conveying my wife back to the Louvre, he was coming out as she was going in, and she showed him to me." "The devil! The devil!" murmured d'Artagnan; "all this is vague enough.
From whom have you learned of the abduction of your wife ?" "From Monsieur Laporte." "Did he give you any details ?" "He knew none himself." "And you have learned nothing from any other quarter ?" "Yes, I have received--" "What ?" "I fear I am committing a great imprudence." "You always come back to that; but I must make you see this time that it is too late to retreat." "I do not retreat, MORDIEU!" cried the citizen, swearing in order to rouse his courage.

"Besides, by the faith of Bonacieux--" "You call yourself Bonacieux ?" interrupted d'Artagnan.
"Yes, that is my name." "You said, then, by the word of Bonacieux.


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