While awaiting the purchase, you can live at La Fere, and we shall go together to fly our hawks among the vines, as Louis XIII.

used to do.

That is a quiet amusement for old fellows like us." D'Artagnan took the hands of Athos in his own.

"Dear count," said he, "I shall say neither 'Yes' nor 'No.' Let me pass in Paris the time necessary for the regulation of my affairs, and accustom myself, by degrees, to the heavy and glittering idea which is beating in my brain and dazzles me.

I am rich, you see, and from this moment until the time when I shall have acquired the habit of being rich, I know myself, and I shall be an insupportable animal.