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The cause of the confusion was that M. Percerin's doors were closed, while a servant, standing before them, was explaining to the illustrious customers of the illustrious tailor that just then M. Percerin could not receive anybody.
"And what have you been doing at Percerin's, for I suppose you attach no great importance to our poets' dresses?" "No; I went to prepare a surprise." "Surprise?" "Yes; which you are going to give to the king." "And will it cost much?" "Oh! a hundred pistoles you will give Lebrun." "A painting? Ah! all the better! And what is this painting to represent?"
"I told him so, and he then added this: 'Whoever advises me to spare expense, I shall look upon as my enemy." "It is positive madness; and that portrait, too!" "What portrait?" said Aramis. "That of the king, and the surprise as well." "What surprise?" "The surprise you seem to have in view, and on account of which you took some specimens away, when I met you at Percerin's." D'Artagnan paused.
Why did you take some patterns of the king's costumes at Percerin's?" "Come with me and ask poor Lebrun, who has been working upon them for the last two days and nights." "Aramis, that may be truth for everybody else, but for me " "Upon my word, D'Artagnan, you astonish me." "Be a little considerate. Tell me the exact truth; you would not like anything disagreeable to happen to me, would you?"
"Oh, ah, yes," said Porthos, who wished to appear to know the king's tailor, but now heard his name mentioned for the first time; "to M. Percerin's, by Jove! I was afraid he would be too busy." "Doubtless he will be; but be at ease, Porthos; he will do for me what he wouldn't do for another. Only you must allow yourself to be measured!"
"And besides, my dear Porthos," continued D'Artagnan, "M. Moliere is not altogether what he seems." "In what way?" asked Porthos. "Why, this gentleman is one of M. Percerin's chief clerks, and is expected at Saint-Mande to try on the dresses which M. Fouquet has ordered for the Epicureans." "'Tis precisely so," said Moliere. "Yes, monsieur."
The latter hurried after him, with Porthos in the rear, and after threading a labyrinth of corridors, introduced him to M. Percerin's room. The old man, with his sleeves turned up, was gathering up in folds a piece of gold-flowered brocade, so as the better to exhibit its luster.
On this observation, neither the application nor depth of which we shall discuss, D'Artagnan and Porthos quitted M. de Percerin's house and rejoined their carriages, wherein we will leave them, in order to look after Moliere and Aramis at Saint-Mande. The bishop of Vannes, much annoyed at having met D'Artagnan at M. Percerin's, returned to Saint-Mande in no very good humor.
And so it was a doublet issuing from M. Percerin's workshop, which the Parisians rejoiced in hacking into so many pieces with the living human body it contained. Notwithstanding the favor Concino Concini had shown Percerin, the king, Louis XIII., had the generosity to bear no malice to his tailor, and to retain him in his service.
And what are they all about?" "'Tis very simple. They are waiting their turn." "Bah! Have the comedians of the Hotel de Bourgogne shifted their quarters?" "No; their turn to obtain an entrance to M. Percerin's house." "And we are going to wait too?" "Oh, we shall show ourselves prompter and not so proud." "What are we to do, then?"
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