"It is much better both for you and for me to stop where we are," ` ` answered the wounded man. "CORBLEU--I am more your friend than you ` ` think--for after our very first encounter, I could by saying a word to ` ` the cardinal have had your throat cut!" ` ` ` ` They this time embraced heartily, and without retaining any malice. ` ` ` ` Planchet obtained from Rochefort the rank of sergeant in the Piedmont ` ` regiment. ` ` ` ` M. Bonacieux lived on very quietly, wholly ignorant of what had become ` ` of his wife, and caring very little about it. One day he had the ` ` imprudence to recall himself to the memory of the cardinal. The ` ` cardinal had him informed that he would provide for him so that he ` ` should never want for anything in future. In fact, M. Bonacieux, ` ` having left his house at seven o'clock in the evening to go to the ` ` Louvre, never appeared again in the Rue des Fossoyeurs; the opinion ` ` of those who seemed to be best informed was that he was fed and ` ` lodged in some royal castle, at the expense of his generous Eminence. ` ` ` ` ` `