What do you think of Monsieur de Treville telling me, when he did me the honor to call upon me yesterday, that you associated with the suspected English, whom the cardinal protects ?" "That is to say, I visit an Englishwoman--the one I named." "Oh, ay! the fair woman on whose account I gave you advice, which naturally you took care not to adopt." "I gave you my reasons." "Yes; you look there for your outfit, I think you said." "Not at all.

I have acquired certain knowledge that that woman was concerned in the abduction of Madame Bonacieux." "Yes, I understand now: to find one woman, you court another.

It is the longest road, but certainly the most amusing." D'Artagnan was on the point of telling Athos all; but one consideration restrained him.

Athos was a gentleman, punctilious in points of honor; and there were in the plan which our lover had devised for Milady, he was sure, certain things that would not obtain the assent of this Puritan.

He was therefore silent; and as Athos was the least inquisitive of any man on earth, d'Artagnan's confidence stopped there.