It was that which made me ask you, just now.

What are you doing here, baron ?" "I am studying topography, chevalier." "You are studying topography ?" "Yes; but you--what are you doing in that common dress ?" D'Artagnan perceived he had committed a fault in giving expression to his astonishment.

Porthos had taken advantage of it, to retort with a question.

"Why," said he, "you know I am a bourgeois, in fact; my dress, then, has nothing astonishing in it, since it conforms with my condition." "Nonsense! you are a musketeer." "You are wrong, my friend; I have given in my resignation." "Bah!" "Oh, _mon Dieu!_ yes." "And you have abandoned the service ?" "I have quitted it." "You have abandoned the king ?" "Quite." Porthos raised his arms towards heaven, like a man who has heard extraordinary news.

"Well, that _does_ confound me," said he.
"It is nevertheless true." "And what led you to form such a resolution." "The king displeased me.