Four lackeys had tried in vain, pulling at them as they would have pulled capstans; and yet all this did not awaken him.

They had hacked off his boots in fragments, and his legs had fallen back upon the bed.

They then cut off the rest of his clothes, carried him to a bath, in which they let him soak a considerable time.

They then put on him clean linen, and placed him in a well-warmed bed--the whole with efforts and pains which might have roused a dead man, but which did not make Porthos open an eye, or interrupt for a second the formidable diapason of his snoring.

Aramis wished on his part, with his nervous nature, armed with extraordinary courage, to outbrave fatigue, and employ himself with Gourville and Pelisson, but he fainted in the chair in which he had persisted sitting.
He was carried into the adjoining room, where the repose of bed soon soothed his failing brain..