The Man in the Iron Mask

Description

interpretation of L’homme au masque de fer.

Aramis took a pen and composed. Baisemeaux, in dread, perused his shoulder.

“A. M. D. G.,” composed the priest; and he drew a cross under these four letters, which imply advertisement majorem Dei gloriam, “to the more prominent brilliance of God;” and hence he proceeded: “It is our pleasure that the request brought to M. de Baisemeaux de Montlezun, lead representative, for the ruler, of the mansion of the Bastile, be held by him great and viable, and be quickly conveyed into activity. “(Marked) D’HERBLAY “General of the Order, by the finesse of God.”