que personne, par votre sagesse et vos conseils toujours suivis de si heureux résultats.
-- Hélas, cher ami! dit Aramis, nos dernières aventures m’ont dégo.té tout à fait de la vie d’homme d’épée.
Cette fois, mon parti est pris irrévocablement, après le siège j’entre chez les lazaristes. Gardez ce brevet,
d’Artagnan, le métier des armes vous convient, vous serez un brave et aventureux capitaine..
D’Artagnan, l’oeil humide de reconnaissance et brillant de joie, revint à Athos, qu’il trouva toujours attablé et
mirant son dernier verre de malaga à la lueur de la lampe.
.Eh bien, dit-il, eux aussi m’ont refusé.
-- C’est que personne, cher ami, n’en était plus digne que vous..
Il prit une plume, écrivit sur le brevet le nom de d’Artagnan, et le lui remit.
.Je n’aurai donc plus d’amis, dit le jeune homme, hélas! plus rien, que d’amers souvenirs....
Et il laissa tomber sa tête entre ses deux mains, tandis que deux larmes roulaient le long de ses joues.
.Vous êtes jeune, vous, répondit Athos, et vos souvenirs amers ont le temps de se changer en doux
souvenirs!.
éPILOGUE
La Rochelle, privée du secours de la flotte anglaise et de la division promise par Buckingham, se rendit après
un siège d’un an. Le 28 octobre 1628, on signa la capitulation.
Le roi fit son entrée à Paris le 23 décembre de la même année. On lui fit un triomphe comme s’il revenait de
vaincre l’ennemi et non des Fran.ais. Il entra par le faubourg Saint-Jacques sous des arcs de verdure.
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D’Artagnan prit possession de son grade. Porthos quitta le service et épousa, dans le courant de l’année
suivante, Mme Coquenard, le coffre tant convoité contenait huit cent mille livres.
Mousqueton eut une livrée magnifique, et de plus la satisfaction, qu’il avait ambitionnée toute sa vie, de
monter derrière un carrosse doré.
Aramis, après un voyage en Lorraine, disparut tout à coup et cessa d’écrire à ses amis. On apprit plus tard, par
Mme de Chevreuse, qui le dit à deux ou trois de ses amants, qu’il avait pris l’habit dans un couvent de Nancy.
Bazin devint frère lai.
Athos resta mousquetaire sous les ordres de d’Artagnan jusqu’en 1633, époque à laquelle, à la suite d’un
voyage qu’il fit en Touraine, il quitta aussi le service sous prétexte qu’il venait de recueillir un petit héritage
en Roussillon.
Grimaud suivit Athos.
D’Artagnan se battit trois fois avec Rochefort et le blessa trois fois.
.Je vous tuerai probablement à la quatrième, lui dit-il en lui tendant la main pour le relever.
-- Il vaut donc mieux, pour vous et pour moi, que nous en restions là, répondit le blessé. Corbleu! je suis plus
votre ami que vous ne pensez, car dès la première rencontre j’aurais pu, en disant un mot au cardinal, vous
faire couper le cou..
Ils s’embrassèrent cette fois, mais de bon coeur et sans arrière- pensée.
Planchet obtint de Rochefort le grade de sergent dans les gardes.
M. Bonacieux vivait fort tranquille, ignorant parfaitement ce qu’était devenue sa femme et ne s’en inquiétant
guère. Un jour, il eut l’imprudence de se rappeler au souvenir du cardinal; le cardinal lui fit répondre qu’il
allait pourvoir à ce qu’il ne manquat jamais de rien désormais.
En effet, le lendemain, M. Bonacieux, étant sorti à sept heures du soir de chez lui pour se rendre au Louvre, ne
reparut plus rue des Fossoyeurs; l’avis de ceux qui parurent les mieux informés fut qu’il était nourri et logé
dans quelque chateau royal aux frais de sa généreuse éminence.
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