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`` A proof that I know better than you what goes on in the Bastille ; and if I were to speak of some things you do know , you would be still more surprised . '' `` What could you tell me ? '' `` That a week ago one of the officers of the Bastille , and an important one too , received fifty thousand francs to let two women pass with -- '' `` Monsieur , they were -- '' `` I know who they were , what they went for , and what they did . They were Mademoiselle de Valois and Mademoiselle de Charolais ; they went to see the Duc de Richelieu , and they eat bon-bons till midnight in the Tour du Coin , where they intend to pay another visit to-morrow , as they have already announced to M. de Richelieu . '' De Launay turned pale . `` Well , '' continued Dubois , `` do you think if I told these kind of things to the regent , who is , as you know , greedy of scandal , that a certain M. de Launay would be long governor of the Bastille ? But I shall not say a word , for we must help each other . ''