“Certainly; you will recollect, however, that I would not credit it, but that you compelled me to believe it.”
“Oh! Baisemeaux, my good fellow, what a word to make use of!—strongly recommended, that was all.”
“Strongly recommended, yes; strongly recommended to give him up to you; and that you carried him off with you in your carriage.”
“Well, my dear Monsieur de Baisemeaux, it was a mistake; it was discovered at the ministry, so that I now bring you an order from the king to set at liberty Seldon,—that poor Seldon fellow, you know.”
“Seldon! are you sure this time?”
“Well, read it yourself,” added Aramis, handing him the order.
“Why,” said Baisemeaux, “this order is the very same that has already passed through my hands.”
“Indeed?”
“It is the very one I assured you I saw the other evening. Parbleu! I recognize it by the blot of ink.”
“I do not know whether it is that; but all I know is, that I bring it for you.”