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"I will but go and return, sire; I shall be back in ten o and find er"

"Wait, sir, wait," said Louis XVIII "Really, M de Blacas, I le with outstretched wings, holding in its claws a prey which tries in vain to escape, and bearing this device--Tenax"

"Sire, I listen," said De Blacas, biting his nails with ie, 'Molli fugiens anhelitu,' you know it refers to a stag flying froreat wolf-hunter? Well, then, what do you think of the er is like the stag you refer to, for he has posted two hundred and twenty leagues in scarcely three days"

"Which is undergoing great fatigue and anxiety, es in three or four hours, and that without getting in the least out of breath"

"Ah, sire, you reco ive your majesty useful information If only for the sake of M de Salvieux, who recoraciously"

"M de Salvieux, my brother's chamberlain?"

"Yes, sire"

"He is at Marseilles"

"And writes me thence"

"Does he speak to you of this conspiracy?"

"No; but strongly recos me to present hi, "is the er's name M de Villefort?"

"Yes, sire"