Ten Years Later: The Vicomte of Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 3 Page 3

staircase, at the top of which Raoul appeared, holding fast by the balustrade.

The girl continued to walk on — he followed her; she entered a chamber — he did the same.

As soon as he was fairly in the net he heard a loud cry, and, turning round, saw at two paces from him, with her hands clasped and her eyes closed, that beautiful fair girl with blue eyes and white shoulders, who, recognizing him, called him Raoul.

He saw her, and divined at once so much love and so much joy in the expression of her countenance, the he sank on his knees in the middle of the chamber, murmuring, on his part, the name of Louise.

“Ah! Montalais! — Montalais!” she sighed, “it is very wicked to deceive me so.”