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Mordioux! that is the thing, and this Monk shall not get the better of me. Eh? and besides I have an idea!" We know that, in general, D'Artagnan was not wanting in ideas; and during this soliloquy, D'Artagnan buttoned his vest up to the chin, and nothing excited his imagination like this preparation for a combat of any kind, called accinction by the Romans.
"Monsieur," said he, "you do not hurry your tenant, and the condemned will soon be here. There will then be such a press we shall not be able to get out." "You are right," said the musketeer; "Hola! oh! somebody there! Mordioux!" But it was in vain he cried and knocked upon the wreck of the old table, which fell to pieces beneath his fist; nobody came.
"Now give ten crowns to the postilion," said D'Artagnan, in the tone he would have employed in commanding a maneuver; "two lads to bring up the two first bags, two to bring up the two last, and move, Mordioux! be lively!" Planchet rushed down the stairs, as if the devil had been at his heels. A moment later the lads ascended the staircase, bending beneath their burden.
When we think that, in my time, the musketeers were besieged in their houses like Hector and Priam in the city of Troy, and the women wept, and then the walls laughed, and then five hundred beggarly fellows clapped their hands, and cried, 'Kill! kill! when not one musketeer was hurt. Mordioux! you will never see anything like that."
"I ask for my discharge, or I will take it." "You are angry, monsieur?" "I have reason, mordioux! Thirty-two hours in the saddle, I ride day and night, I perform prodigies of speed, I arrive stiff as the corpse of a man who has been hung and another arrives before me! Come, sire, I am a fool! My discharge, sire!"
"Oh! come," said D'Artagnan to himself, "that is too strong! We must be careful, mordioux! we must be careful." And he then gave Aramis all the information respecting M. Colbert he could desire. The supper, or rather, the conversation, was prolonged till one o'clock in the morning between D'Artagnan and Aramis.
"Oh, the king is furious!" "Very well! the king, who has thought it worth while to be angry, may take the trouble to grow calm again; that is all. I shan't die of that, I will swear." "No, but " "But I shall be sent to keep company with unfortunate M. Fouquet. Mordioux! That is a gallant man, a worthy man! We shall live very sociably together, I will be sworn."
"That's the way," said the giant, not letting the rock fall again, but placing it upon its support. "Mordioux!" cried D'Artagnan, "I know but one man capable of such a feat of strength." "Hein!" cried the colossus, turning round. "Porthos!" murmured D'Artagnan, seized with stupor, "Porthos at Belle-Isle!"
Mazarin, this evening, gave an address, and made an appointment as complacently as M. Daangeau himself could have done I heard him, and I know the meaning of his words. 'To-morrow morning, said he, 'they will pass opposite the bridge of Blois. Mordioux! that is clear enough, and particularly for a lover.
"Eighteen millions of livres, sire," replied Colbert, bowing. "Mordioux!" growled D'Artagnan, "that's glorious!" "Monsieur Colbert," added the king, "you will, if you please, go through the gallery where M. Lyonne is waiting, and will tell him to bring hither what he has drawn up by my order." "Directly, sire; if your majesty wants me no more this evening?" "No, monsieur: good-night!"
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