Part 122 (1/2)
”Quite”
Porthos raised his arms towards heaven, like a man who has heard extraordinary news ”Well, that does confound me,” said he
”It is nevertheless true”
”And what led you to for displeasedtime, as you know; so I threw my cassock to the nettles”
”But Mazarin is dead”
”I know that well enough, parbleu! Only, at the period of his death, iven in and accepted twomyself free, I set off for Pierrefonds, to see my friend Porthos I had heard talk of the happy division you had ht, to divide mine after your fashi+on”
”My friend, you know that it is not for a fortnight my house is open to you; it is for a year--for ten years--for life”
”Thank you, Porthos”
”Ah! but perhaps you wantlike fifty louis chink in his pocket ”In that case, you know--”
”No, thank you; I as with Planchet, who pays s?”
”Yes, to be sure,” said D'Artagnan: ”why should I not put by s, as well as another, Porthos?”
”Oh, there is no reason why; on the contrary, I always suspected you--that is to say, Aras For es of a musketeer must be small”
”No doubt, relative to yourself, Porthos, who are a e I had laid by twenty-five thousand livres”
”That's pretty well,” said Porthos, with an affable air
”And,” continued D'Artagnan, ”on the twenty-eighth of last month I added to it two hundred thousand livres e eyes, which eloquently demanded of the musketeer, ”Where the devil did you steal such a sum as that, my dear friend?” ”Two hundred thousand livres!” cried he, at length
”Yes; which, with the twenty-five I had, and twenty thousand I have about me, complete the sum of two hundred and forty-five thousand livres”
”But tell me, whence comes this fortune?”
”I will tell you all about it presently, dear friend; but as you have, in the first place, s to tell me yourself, let us have my recital in its proper order”
”Bravo!” said Porthos; ”then we are both rich But what can I have to relate to you?”
”You have to relate to me how Aramis came to be named--”
”Ah! bishop of Vannes”
”That's it,” said D'Artagnan, ”bishop of Vannes Dear Aramis! do you kno he succeeded so well?”
”Yes, yes; without reckoning that he does not mean to stop there”