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"What's that?" interrupted the king; "feed what ought to be hanged! ~Pasque-Dieu~! I will give not a souabout the matter with Monsieur d'Estouteville, and prepare allows Resuainst the article of the "rascally foot soldier," and passed on

"To Henriet Cousin, h works of justice in Paris, the sum of sixty sols parisis, to hineur the provost of Paris, for having bought, by order of the said sieur the provost, a great broad sword, serving to execute and decapitate persons who are by justice condearnished with a sheath and with all things thereto appertaining; and hath likewise caused to be repointed and set in order the old sword, which had beco justice on Messire Louis de Luxe interrupted: "That suffices I allow the surudge I have never regretted that e"

"Ah!" said the king, grasping the arms of his chair in both hands, "I kneell that I came hither to this Bastille for soeit Messieurs Fles, come and see this; 'tis curious"

Then he rose, leaned on the arn to the sort of mute who stood before the door to precede his to follow him, and quitted the room

The royal company was recruited, at the door of the retreat, by es bearing flaloomy donjon, pierced with staircases and corridors even in the very thickness of the walls The captain of the Bastille marched at their head, and caused the wickets to be opened before the bent and aged king, who coughed as he walked

At each wicket, all heads were obliged to stoop, except that of the old uer any teeth, "we are already quite prepared for the door of the sepulchre For a low door, a bent passer"

At length, after having passed a final wicket, so loaded with locks that a quarter of an hour was required to open it, they entered a vast and lofty vaulted hall, in the centre of which they could distinguish by the light of the torches, a huge cubic mass of masonry, iron, and wood The interior was hollow It was one of those faes of prisoners of state, which were called "the little daughters of the king" In its walls there were two or three little s so closely trellised with stout iron bars; that the glass was not visible The door was a large flat slab of stone, as on tombs; the sort of door which serves for entrance only Only here, the occupant was alive