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The soldier found the occupation so pleasant, that he put his hand to the work that is to say, to the lines and uttered roars of joy, and mordioux enough to have astonished his musketeers themselves, every time that a shock given to his line by the captured fish required the play of the muscles of his arm, and the employment of his best dexterity.
Two-thirds too much!" "I beg your pardon did you not tell me? I thought I heard you say I fancied you had a partner " "Ah! Mordioux! that's true," cried D'Artagnan, coloring; "there is Planchet. I had forgotten Planchet, upon my life! Well! there are my three hundred thousand livres broken into. That's a pity! it was a round sum, and sounded well. That is true, Athos; I am no longer rich.
The cortege continued to file on, and, with the king, the acclamations began to die away in the direction of the palace which, however, did not prevent our officer from being pushed about. "Mordioux!" continued the reasoner, "these people tread upon my toes and look upon me as of very little consequence, or rather of none at all, seeing that they are Englishmen and I am a Frenchman.
Only the India-rubber had passed and repassed so often over this writing that it might have escaped a less practiced eye than that of our musketeer. "Bravo! my friend, bravo!" said D'Artagnan. "And now you know all that you want to know, do you not?" said Porthos, wheeling about. "Mordioux! yes, only do me one last favor, dear friend!" "Speak, I am master here."
The whole mystery lies in these three points. Since, therefore," continued D'Artagnan, "our friends tell us nothing, we must have recourse to our own poor intelligence. I must do what I can, mordioux, or rather Malaga, as Planchet would say." D'Artagnan, faithful to his plan, went the very next morning to pay a visit to M. de Baisemeaux.
Mordioux! Sire, if my name was Fouquet, and people treated me in that manner, I would swallow at a single gulp all sorts of fireworks and other things, and I would set fire to them, and send myself and everybody else in blown-up atoms to the sky. But it is all the same; it is your wish, and it shall be done." "Go," said the king; "but have you men enough?"
"You see Locmaria," replied the fisherman. "Well, but there?" "That is Bangor." "And further on?" "Sauzon, and then Le Palais." "Mordioux! It is a world. Ah! there are some soldiers." "There are seventeen hundred men in Belle-Isle, monsieur," replied the fisherman, proudly. "Do you know that the least garrison is of twenty companies of infantry?"
"We will get you out again," said Raoul, with a quiet, calm air. "Mordioux! You said that after a brave fashion, Raoul," said D'Artagnan, seizing his hand, "that savors of Athos, distinctly. Well, I will go, then. Do not forget my last word." "Except a fifth," said Raoul. "Yes, you are a fine boy! and I wish you to add one thing to that last word." "Speak, chevalier!"
"What do you want?" asked that voice, at the same time weak, broken, and civil. "I want his majesty King Charles II., king of England," said the stranger. "What do you want with him?" "I want to speak with him." "Who are you?" "Ah! Mordioux! you ask too much; I don't like talking through doors." "Only tell me your name."
"No," replied he; "but I am too lazy to write, and when I have a verse in my head, I print it immediately. That is a labor spared." "Mordioux!" thought D'Artagnan to himself, "this must be cleared up." "Humph!" said D'Artagnan, "I do not yet know whether M. Fouquet wishes to fortify Belle-Isle; but, at all events, here are some spiritual munitions for the castle."
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