Ten Years Later: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 57 Page 7

“Do you think it a bad way?”

“It is a very expeditious way, at all events.”

“‘Good justice is prompt;’ so my grandfather Henry IV. used to say.”

“In that case, your majesty will, perhaps, be good enough to sign my adversary’s pardon, for he is now waiting for me at the Minimes, for the purpose of putting me out of my misery.”

“His name, and a parchment!”

“There is a parchment upon your majesty’s table; and for his name — ”

“Well, what is it?”

“The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sire.”