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Sample ## Take a look inside This etext was produced by David Widger \[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.\] CINQ MARS By ALFRED DE VIGNY BOOK 5. CHAPTER XVIII THE SECRET De Thou had reached home with his friend; his doors were carefully shut, and orders given to admit no one, and to excuse him to the refugees for allowing them to depart without seeing them again; and as yet the two friends had not spoken to each other. The counsellor had thrown himself into his armchair in deep meditation. Cinq-Mars, leaning against the lofty chimneypiece, awaited with a serious and sorrowful air the termination of this silence. At length De Thou, looking fixedly at him and crossing his arms, said in a hollow and melancholy voice: "This, then, is the goal you have reached! These, the consequences of your ambition! You are are about to banish, perhaps slay, a man, and to bring then, a foreign army into France; I am, then, to see you an assassin and a traitor to your country! By what tortuous paths have you arrived thus far? By what stages have you descended so low?" "Any other than yourself would not speak thus to me twice," said Cinq- Mars, coldly; "but I know you, and I like this explanation. I desired it, and sought it. You shall see my entire soul. I had at first another thought, a better one perhaps, more worthy of our friendship, more worthy of friendship—friendship, the second thing upon earth." He raised his eyes to heaven as he spoke, as if he there sought the divinity. "Yes, it would have been better. I intended to have said… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fcinq-mars-volume-5) The sample continues in the full work. 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