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Monsieur de Manicamp, that some one is lying wounded in the chateau?"
"Yes, Madame, unfortunately so - Monsieur de Guiche."
"Yes, Monsieur de Guiche," repeated the princess. "I had, in fact, heard
Guiche who has been thus unfortunate?"
"M. de Guiche himself, Madame."
"Are you aware, M. de Manicamp," said the princes, hastily, "that the
with what object I cannot tell, respecting M. de Guiche having been
in addition to the inconvenience of his wound, M. de Guiche runs the risk
rushed forth out of the Bois-Rochin; how M. de Guiche fired at it, and
and grievously wounded himself."
"And the king.html">king.html">king believed that?"
"Implicitly."
"Oh, you surprise.html">surprise me, Monsieur de Manicamp; you surprise me very much."
And Madame walked up and down the room, casting a searching look from
same place. At last she stopped.
"And yet," she said, "every one here seems unanimous in giving another
indiscretion, to ask.html">ask your highness?"
"You ask such a question! You, M. de Guiche's intimate friend, his
man who can keep his own secrets, who has some of his own certainly, but
itself, Madame."
"Very well.html">well, then; those secrets which M. de Guiche keeps so scrupulously,
spitefully; "for the king may possibly question you a second time, and
possibly might not be very well satisfied with it."
"But, Madame, I think.html">think your highness is mistaken with regard to the king.
proves one thing, which is, that his majesty is very easily satisfied."
"I think your highness is mistaken in arriving at such an opinion; his
when he will learn to-morrow that M. de Guiche had, on behalf of his
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