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The handkerchief was indeed richly embroidered, and had a coronet and arms at one of its corners.
Aramis blushed excessively, and snatched rather than took the handkerchief from the hand of the Gascon.
Then, resuming his mild air, "You are deceived, gentlemen," said he, "this handkerchief is not mine, and I cannot fancy why Monsieur has taken it into his head to offer it to me rather than to one of you; and as a proof of what I say, here is mine in my pocket."
So saying, he pulled out his own handkerchief, likewise a very elegant handkerchief, and of fine cambric--though cambric was dear at the period--but a handkerchief without embroidery and without arms, only ornamented with a single cipher, that of its proprietor.
"The fact is," hazarded d’Artagnan, timidly, "I did not see the handkerchief fall from the pocket of Monsieur Aramis.
He had his foot upon it, that is all; and I thought from having his foot upon it the handkerchief was his.""And you were deceived, my dear sir," replied Aramis, coldly, very little sensible to the reparation.
Then turning toward that one of the guards who had declared himself the friend of Bois-Tracy, "Besides," continued he, "I have reflected, my dear intimate of Bois-Tracy, that I am not less tenderly his friend than you can possibly be; so that decidedly this handkerchief is as likely to have fallen from your pocket as mine."
"Of the handkerchief?"
"Why did you so maladroitly restore me the handkerchief?"
"I have said, monsieur, and I repeat, that the handkerchief did not fall from my pocket."
Take your handkerchief; whether it belongs to you or another, you may perhaps stand in need of it."
"Oh, I don’t doubt that," replied d’Artagnan; "but it seems to me that you are tolerably familiar with coats of arms--a certain embroidered handkerchief, for instance, to which I owe the honor of your acquaintance?"
The handkerchief you saw had not been given to me, but it had been forgotten and left at my house by one of my friends.
Bonacieux, and was, as we have said, close to her, he saw on the ground a fine cambric handkerchief, which he picked up, as was his habit, and at the corner of which he recognized the same cipher he had seen on the handkerchief which had nearly caused him and Aramis to cut each other’s throat.
D’Artagnan then saw that the young woman took from her pocket a white object, which she unfolded quickly, and which took the form of a handkerchief.
This immediately recalled to d’Artagnan’s mind the handkerchief which he had found at the feet of Mme.
"What the devil could that handkerchief signify?"Placed where he was, d’Artagnan could not perceive the face of Aramis.
Curiosity prevailed over prudence; and profiting by the preoccupation into which the sight of the handkerchief appeared to have plunged the two personages now on the scene, he stole from his hiding place, and quick as lightning, but stepping with utmost caution, he ran and placed himself close to the angle of the wall, from which his eye could pierce the interior of Aramis’s room.
At the same instant the woman inside drew a second handkerchief from her pocket, and exchanged it for that which had just been shown to her.
The suspicion that it was she had crossed the mind of d’Artagnan when she drew the handkerchief from her pocket; but what probability was there that Mme.
I have not a penny about me.""You forget that beautiful handkerchief with the coat of arms."
"About three months ago I was near having a duel with Aramis concerning a handkerchief resembling the one you showed to the woman in his house--for a handkerchief marked in the same manner, I am sure."
"Monsieur," said the young woman, "you weary me very much, I assure you, with your questions.""But you, madame, prudent as you are, think, if you were to be arrested with that handkerchief, and that handkerchief were to be seized, would you not be compromised?"
The woman’s hood was pulled down, and the man held a handkerchief to his face.
"When someone came and brought her a handkerchief from her laundress."
"The woman who was here--the woman with the embroidered handkerchief."
"Stay!" said d’Artagnan; and taking out his handkerchief, he gagged him.
She bit her handkerchief with her beautiful teeth.
Her countenance, with surprising mobility, had recovered its gracious expression; but some little red spots on her handkerchief indicated that she had bitten her lips till the blood came.
"Yes, if you show me a certain embroidered handkerchief."
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