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He confessed that he had undertaken with his comrade--the same who was killed--to carry off a young woman who was to leave Paris by the Barriere de La Villette; but having stopped to drink at a cabaret, they had missed the carriage by ten minutes.
A carriage was in waiting.
"Is this carriage for us?" asked Milady.
"Very well," said Milady; and she resolutely entered the carriage.
The officer saw that the baggage was fastened carefully behind the carriage; and this operation ended, he took his place beside Milady, and shut the door.
So strange a reception naturally gave Milady ample matter for reflection; so seeing that the young officer did not seem at all disposed for conversation, she reclined in her corner of the carriage, and one after the other passed in review all the surmises which presented themselves to her mind.
No voice replied to hers; the carriage continued to roll on with rapidity; the officer seemed a statue.
At length after a journey of nearly an hour, the carriage stopped before an iron gate, which closed an avenue leading to a castle severe in form, massive, and isolated.
The carriage passed under two arched gateways, and at length stopped in a court large, dark, and square.
Almost immediately the door of the carriage was opened, the young man sprang lightly out and presented his hand to Milady, who leaned upon it, and in her turn alighted with tolerable calmness.
Immediately several men appeared, who unharnessed the smoking horses, and put the carriage into a coach house.
I learn this desire, or rather I suspect that you feel it; and in order to spare you all the annoyances of a nocturnal arrival in a port and all the fatigues of landing, I send one of my officers to meet you, I place a carriage at his orders, and he brings you hither to this castle, of which I am governor, whither I come every day, and where, in order to satisfy our mutual desire of seeing each other, I have prepared you a chamber.
I had vague perceptions of space traversed, of the rolling of a carriage, of a horrible dream in which my strength had become exhausted; but all this was so dark and so indistinct in my mind that these events seemed to belong to another life than mine, and yet mixed with mine in fantastic duality.
He took the papers, and presented himself here as the emissary of the cardinal, and in an hour or two a carriage will come to take me away by the orders of his Eminence."
It is your brother who sends this carriage."
The carriage is at the door; you bid me adieu; you mount the step to embrace me a last time; my brother’s servant, who comes to fetch me, is told how to proceed; he makes a sign to the postillion, and we set off at a gallop."
"My brother’s carriage will be here first."
"If I should happen to be any distance from you when the carriage comes for you--at dinner or supper, for instance?"
On reaching the courtyard, they heard the noise of a carriage which stopped at the gate.
"Do you hear anything?" said she."Yes, the rolling of a carriage."
He was to wait at the gate; if by chance the Musketeers should appear, the carriage was to set off as fast as possible, pass around the convent, and go and wait for Milady at a little village which was situated at the other side of the wood.
Bonacieux was to get into the carriage as if to bid her adieu, and she was to take away Mme.
Milady asked some questions about the carriage.
At this moment they heard the rolling of the carriage, which at the approach of the Musketeers set off at a gallop.
"Of her whose carriage was at the gate; of a woman who calls herself your friend; of a woman to whom you have told everything."
Planchet, the most intelligent of the four, was to follow that by which the carriage had gone upon which the four friends had fired, and which was accompanied, as may be remembered, by Rochefort’s servant.
Then all his suspicions were confirmed; the road by which the carriage had disappeared encircled the forest.
Athos followed the road for some time, his eyes fixed upon the ground; slight stains of blood, which came from the wound inflicted upon the man who accompanied the carriage as a courier, or from one of the horses, dotted the road.
Between the forest and this accursed spot, a little behind the trampled ground, was the same track of small feet as in the garden; the carriage had stopped here.
At this spot Milady had come out of the wood, and entered the carriage.
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