Then, as you have judged me to be an honorable man, and confided your secret to me, I have to thank you for this confidence, and I shall come and pay you a visit or send for you.

Do not go before I send word.

I repeat the request." "I promise you, general," cried Athos, with a joy so great, that in spite of all his circumspection, he could not prevent its sparkling in his eyes.
Monk surprised this flash, and immediately extinguished it by one of those silent smiles which always caused his interlocutors to know they had made no inroad on his mind.
"Then, my lord, it is a week that you desire me to wait ?" "A week?
yes, monsieur." "And during those days what shall I do ?" "If there should be a battle, keep at a distance from it, I beseech you.
I know the French delight in such amusements;--you might take a fancy to see how we fight, and you might receive some chance shot.

Our Scotsmen are very bad marksmen, and I do not wish that a worthy gentleman like you should return to France wounded.

Nor should I like to be obliged, myself, to send to your prince his million left here by you; for then it would be said, and with some reason, that I paid the Pretender to enable him to make war against the parliament.