Part 94 (1/2)
”Are you acquainted with Bretagne?”
”No, sire”
”Have you any friends there?”
”In Bretagne? No,about fortifications?”
”I believe I do, sire,” said D'Artagnan, suish a fortress from a simple fortification, such as is allowed to chatelains or vassals?”
”I distinguish a fort frouish a cuirass from a raised pie-crust, sire Is that sufficient?”
”Yes, ne?”
”Yes”
”Alone?”
”Absolutely alone That is to say, you must not even take a lackey with you”
”May I ask your majesty for what reason?”
”Because, uise yourself soood fanan”
”And then, sire?”
”And then you will travel slowly through Bretagne, and will examine the fortifications of that country”
”The coasts?”
”Yes, and the isles; cos to M Fouquet!” said D'Artagnan, in a serious tone, raising his intelligent eye to Louis XIV
”I fancy you are right,to M
Fouquet, in fact”
”Then yourplace?”
”Yes”
”If the fortifications of it are new or old?”
”Precisely”