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`` I. '' `` You ? '' `` Yes , and in the simplest way . I carried him away last night . While he was descending into midnight , the other was ascending into day . I do not think there has been any disturbance whatever . A flash of lightning without thunder awakens nobody . '' Fouquet uttered a thick , smothered cry , as if he had been struck by some invisible blow , and clasping his head between his clenched hands , he murmured : `` You did that ? ''