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"Oh! silence, gentlemen," said, the prince, "do not be more content than I am at my good fortune. I am enchanted not to be dead, you may well believe; and yet, if you had not recognized me, I should not have been the first to boast of being alive."
"What! monseigneur," cried Henri, "you recognized meyou found yourself among a troop of Frenchmen, and would have left us to mourn your loss, without undeceiving us?"