Ten Years Later: The Man in The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 10 Page 8

“I perused those notes.”

“Attentively?”

“I know them by heart.”

“And understand them?

Pardon me, but I may venture to ask that question of a poor, abandoned captive of the Bastile? In a week’s time it will not be requisite to further question a mind like yours. You will then be in full possession of liberty and power.”

“Interrogate me, then, and I will be a scholar representing his lesson to his master.”

“We will begin with your family, monseigneur.”

“My mother, Anne of Austria! all her sorrows, her painful malady. Oh! I know her — I know her.”