"I am only curious to unravel the mystery to which she is attached.

I do not know why, but I imagine that this woman, wholly unknown to me as she is, and wholly unknown to her as I am, has an influence over my life." "Well, perhaps you are right," said Athos.

"I do not know a woman that is worth the trouble of being sought for when she is once lost.

Madame Bonacieux is lost; so much the worse for her if she is found." "No, Athos, no, you are mistaken," said d'Artagnan; "I love my poor Constance more than ever, and if I knew the place in which she is, were it at the end of the world, I would go to free her from the hands of her enemies; but I am ignorant.

All my researches have been useless.