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”