Give me a minute,--only a minute ?" "So be it; so be it." "I will go," said Raoul, in a low voice, to D'Artagnan; "this hilarity is vile!" "Monsieur," replied D'Artagnan, sternly, "you will please to remain where you are.

The soldier ought to familiarize himself with all kinds of spectacles.

There are in the eye, when it is young, fibers which we must learn how to harden; and we are not truly generous and good save from the moment when the eye has become hardened, and the heart remains tender.

Besides, my little Raoul, would you leave me alone here?
That would be very wrong of you.

Look, there is yonder in the lower court a tree, and under the shade of that tree we shall breathe more freely than in this hot atmosphere of spilt wine." From the spot on which they had placed themselves the two new guests of the Image-de-Notre-Dame heard the ever-increasing hubbub of the tide of people, and lost neither a cry nor a gesture of the drinkers, at tables in the _cabaret_, or disseminated in the chambers.