Part 121 (1/2)

”Peste!”

”Well, but Mouston did not tell you I was here”

”Why should he not? Have I, perchance, deserved to lose his confidence?”

”No; but he did not know it”

”Well; that is a reason at least that does not offend e to find reat noble like you always leaves traced behind hie; and I should think but poorly of h to follow the traces ofas it was, did not entirely satisfy Porthos

”But I left no traces behind uised,” said Porthos

”Ah! You canan

”Yes”

”And how?”

”As a reat noble, like you, Porthos, can affect common manners so as to deceive people?”

”Well, I swear to you my friend, that I played my part so well that everybody was deceived”

”Indeed! so well, that I have not discovered and joined you?”

”Yes; but how did you discover and jointo tell you how Do you iine Mouston--”

”Ah! it was that fellow, Mouston,” said Porthos, gathering up those two triumphant arches which served him for eyebrows

”But stop, I tell you--it was no fault of Mouston's because he was ignorant of where you were”

”I knoas; and that is why I am in such haste to understand--”

”Oh! how impatient you are, Porthos”

”When I do not comprehend, I am terrible”

”Well, you will understand Aramis wrote to you at Pierrefonds, did he not?”

”Yes”