Ten Years Later: The Vicomte of Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 66 Page 6

me; and if he wants me, he will give me what he has promised me — warmth and light; so that I march, comparatively, now, as I marched formerly, — from nothing to everything. Only the nothing of to-day is the all of former days; there has only this little change taken place in my life. And now let us see! let us take the part of the heart, as I just now was speaking of it. But in truth, I only spoke of it from memory.” And the Gascon applied his hand to his breast, as if he were actually seeking the place where his heart was.

“Ah! wretch!” murmured he, smiling with bitterness. “Ah! poor mortal species! You hoped, for an instant, that you had not a heart, and now you find you have one — bad courtier as thou art, — and even one of the most seditious. You have a heart which