Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen,said Buckingham the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words. Besides, I have lost nothing by this journey because I see you. I know that I must have been mad, senseless, to believe that snow would become animated or marble warm but what then They who love believe easily in love. For two days no one knew what had become of her, and everything remained in suspense but once free, and placed in communication with Laporte, matters resumed their course, and she accomplished the perilous enterprise which, but for her arrest, would have been executed three days earlier. Bonacieux, who was charged with going to fetch the duke and conducting him to the Louvre, was abducted. She had already decided upon seeing him and urging his immediate departure, when, on the very evening of coming to this decision, Mme. The queen had at first positively refused but at length became afraid that the duke, if exasperated, would commit some folly. He had learned that the pretended message from Anne of Austria, upon the faith of which he had come to Paris, was a snare but instead of regaining England, he had, abusing the position in which he had been placed, declared to the queen that he would not depart without seeing her. Brave, rash, and enterprising, this was not the first time he had risked his life in such attempts. One of the salient points of his character was the search for adventures and a love of romance. Nevertheless, isolated as he was, we must say that the Duke of Buckingham did not experience an instant of fear. At thirty-five, which was then his age, he passed, with just title, for the handsomest gentleman and the most elegant cavalier of France or England.
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