how could I have foreseen this!”

“Who requested you to suspect, and who besought you to foresee?” contemptuously answered Aramis. “The order suspects; the order knows; the order foresees — is that not enough?”

“What is it you command?” added Baisemeaux.

“I? — nothing at all. I am nothing but a poor priest, a simple confessor.

Have I your orders to go and see the sufferer?”

“Oh, monseigneur, I do not order; I pray you to go.”

“‘Tis well; conduct me to him.”