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"I don't say exactly," answered the Gascon, confused. "Come, D'Artagnan, don't let us play a sidelong game; your hesitation, your evasion, tells me at once on whose side you are; for that party no one dares openly to recruit, and when people recruit for it, it is with averted eyes and humble voice." "Ah! my dear Athos!"
'I must see him, nevertheless, says he; 'announce me! The moment he advances towards the door, the Marquis of La Fare, captain of the Regent's guards, shows himself between the door and the marshal, arrests him, and demands his sword. Le Blanc hands him the order from the king, and at the same instant Count d'Artagnan, commandant of the musketeers, blocks him on the opposite side to La Fare.
On their side, the sailors, seeing that long naked sword, that martial air, and the agile arm which came to the rescue of their enemies, in the person of a man who seemed accustomed to command, the sailors picked up their wounded and their pitchers. The Parisians wiped their brows, and viewed their leader with respect. D'Artagnan was loaded with thanks by the host of "Le Grand Monarque."
"I am all attention, Mousqueton." "On Wednesday " "The day of the rustic pleasures?" "Yes a letter arrived; he received it from my hands. I had recognized the writing." "Well?" Monseigneur read it and cried out, "Quick, my horses! my arms!" "Oh, good Lord! then it was for some duel?" said D'Artagnan.
"Parry, yes, my dear Monsieur d'Artagnan, it is I. What joy to see you once again!" "You are right there, what joy!" said D'Artagnan, pressing the old man's hand. "There, now you'll go and inform the king, will you not?" "But the king is asleep, my dear monsieur." "Mordioux! then wake him. He won't scold you for having disturbed him, I will promise you."
"And," continued D'Artagnan, "on the twenty-eighth of last month I added to it two hundred thousand livres more." Porthos opened his large eyes, which eloquently demanded of the musketeer, "Where the devil did you steal such a sum as that, my dear friend?" "Two hundred thousand livres!" cried he, at length.
Was not the gentleman, whose name I then demanded, called M. d'Artagnan? say, monsieur." "Your majesty has a good memory," replied the officer, coldly. "You see, then," continued the king, "if I have such remembrances of my childhood, what an amount I may gather in the age of reason." "Your majesty has been richly endowed by God," said the officer, in the same tone.
To lines bated with prawn, soles came, with numerous gambols, to bite. Two nets had already been broken by the immense weight of congers and haddocks; three sea-eels plowed the hold with their slimy folds and their dying contortions. D'Artagnan brought them good luck; they told him so.
I suspected you had something to do with that famous restoration, when I learned that you had been seen at King Charles's receptions, and that he appeared to treat you like a friend, or rather like a person to whom he was under an obligation." "But how the devil did you learn all that?" asked D'Artagnan, who began to fear that the investigation of Aramis had extended further than he wished.
D'Artagnan entered, with a simper on his lips, his plate under his arm, his hat in one hand, his candle in the other. "Excuse me, monsieur," said he, "I am as you are, a traveler; I know no one in the hotel, and I have the bad habit of losing my spirits when I eat alone; so that my repast appears a bad one to me, and does not nourish me.
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