"Neffer, neffer!" D'Artagnan, seeing Athos rise, did likewise, took his arm, and went out.
Porthos and Aramis remained behind to encounter the jokes of the dragoon and the Swiss.
As to Bazin, he went and lay down on a truss of straw; and as he had more imagination than the Swiss, he dreamed that Aramis, having become pope, adorned his head with a cardinal's hat.
But, as we have said, Bazin had not, by his fortunate return, removed more than a part of the uneasiness which weighed upon the four friends.
The days of expectation are long, and d'Artagnan, in particular, would have wagered that the days were forty-four hours.

He forgot the necessary slowness of navigation; he exaggerated to himself the power of Milady.

He credited this woman, who appeared to him the equal of a demon, with agents as supernatural as herself; at the least noise, he imagined himself about to be arrested, and that Planchet was being brought back to be confronted with himself and his friends.

Still further, his confidence in the worthy Picard, at one time so great, diminished day by day.

This anxiety became so great that it even extended to Aramis and Porthos.