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enjoy beforehand the face the cardinal will make. He will be
furious; but I don’t care. I am doing what is right.’
The king waved his hand to Treville, who left him and
rejoined the Musketeers, whom he found sharing the forty
pistoles with d’Artagnan.
The cardinal, as his Majesty had said, was really furious,
so furious that during eight days he absented himself from
the king’s gaming table. This did not prevent the king from
being as complacent to him as possible whenever he met
him, or from asking in the kindest tone, ‘Well, Monsieur
Cardinal, how fares it with that poor Jussac and that poor
Bernajoux of yours?’

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