"Be careful of your life, which is menaced, and which will be dear to me from the moment I am not obliged to see an enemy in you.
"Your affectionate
"ANNE"
Buckingham collected all his remaining strength to listen to the reading of the letter; then, when it was ended, as if he had met with a bitter disappointment, he asked, "Have you nothing else to say to me by the living voice, Laporte?"