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to act as my personal confidante and messenger.
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Madame Bonacieux comes highly recommended.
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By the Musketeer d'Artagnan?
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Indeed.
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He said she was a woman of great sense and discretion.
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I have done my best to instil in her the virtues of duty...
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Her position will mean her living near me, in the palace.
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I assume you have no objection.
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Whatever Your Majesty requires.
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My ladies-in-waiting are all excellent women...
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but they have no love for a Spanish queen.
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They gossip like fishwives.