For my own part, d'ye see, I take no concern about the management of my household; but I presume the savings of a musketeer must be small." "No doubt, relative to yourself, Porthos, who are a millionaire; but you shall judge.

I had laid by twenty-five thousand livres." "That's pretty well," said Porthos, with an affable air.
"And," continued D'Artagnan, "on the twenty-eighth of last month I added to it two hundred thousand livres more." Porthos opened his large eyes, which eloquently demanded of the musketeer, "Where the devil did you steal such a sum as that, my dear friend ?" "Two hundred thousand livres!" cried he, at length.
"Yes; which, with the twenty-five I had, and twenty thousand I have about me, complete the sum of two hundred and forty-five thousand livres." "But tell me, whence comes this fortune ?" "I will tell you all about it presently, dear friend; but as you have, in the first place, many things to tell me yourself, let us have my recital in its proper order." "Bravo!" said Porthos; "then we are both rich.

But what can I have to relate to you ?" "You have to relate to me how Aramis came to be named--" "Ah! bishop of Vannes." "That's it," said D'Artagnan, "bishop of Vannes.

Dear Aramis! do you know how he succeeded so well ?" "Yes, yes; without reckoning that he does not mean to stop there." "What! do you mean he will not be contented with violet stockings, and that he wants a red hat ?" "Hush! that is _promised_ him." "Bah! by the king ?" "By somebody more powerful than the king." "Ah! the devil! Porthos: what incredible things you tell me, my friend!" "Why incredible?
Is there not always somebody in France more powerful than the king ?" "Oh, yes; in the time of King Louis XIII.

it was Cardinal Richelieu; in the time of the regency it was Cardinal Mazarin.