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作者:悟来悟去      更新:2021-02-25 00:56      字数:2159
  who   was   riding   by   my   side;   〃M。   de   Boisrose   of   St。   Palais;   gently   born;
  through before unknown to him; I will appear in his place and make the
  Viscount de Caylus swallow the glove。〃
  〃You will?〃 said M。 Louis; with politeness。 〃You are a gentleman。 I am
  obliged to you。〃
  He waved his hand with a gesture which I afterward well remembered;
  and; giving his horse the rein; went forward along the path at a brisk walk。
  We followed; and I had just remarked that a plant of box was beginning
  here and there to take the place of the usual undergrowth; when a sheet of
  flame   seemed   to   leap   out   through   the   dusk   to   meet   him;   and;   his   horse
  rearing wildly; he fell headlong from the saddle without word or cry。 My
  men would have sprung   forward before the  noise of   the report   had  died
  away; and might possibly have overtaken one or more of the assassins; but
  I restrained them。 When La Trape dismounted and raised the fallen man;
  the latter was dead。
  Such    were   the   circumstances;   now   for   the   first   time   made    public;
  which attended the discovery of this; the least known; yet one of the most
  dangerous; of the many plots which were directed against the life of my
  master。   The   course   which   I   adopted   may   be   blamed   by   some;   but   it   is
  enough for me that after the lapse of years it is approved by my conscience
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  and by the course of events。 For it was ever the misfortune of that great
  king   to   treat   those   with   leniency   whom  no   indulgence   could   win;   and   I
  bear   with   me   to   this   day   the   bitter   assurance   that;   had   the   fate   which
  overtook Louis d'Entragues embraced the whole of that family; the blow
  which   ten   years   later   cut   short   Henry's   career   would   never   have   been
  struck。
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