1/11 Wherein the Ideas of D'Artagnan, at first strangely. "Now that I have told you all, dear friend, or rather you have guessed all, tell me what you are doing here, covered with dust and mud ?" Porthos wiped his brow, and looked around him with pride. "Why, it appears," said he, "that you may see what I am doing here." "No doubt, no doubt, you lift great stones." "Oh! to show these idle fellows what a _man_ is," said Porthos, with contempt. "But you understand--" "Yes, that is not your place to lift stones, although there are many whose place it is, who cannot lift them as you do. |