When the two Musketeers had entered; when the door was clod behind them; when the buzzing murmur of the antechamber, to whibsp;the summons whibsp;had been made had doubtless furnished fresh food, had reenced; when M. de Treville had three or four times pabsp;in silenbsp;and with a frowning brow, the whole length of his et, passing eabsp;time before Porthos and Aramis, who were as upright and silent as if on parade--he stopped all at onbsp;full in front of them, and c them from head to foot with an angry look, "Do you know what the king said to me," cried he, "and that no longer ago than yesterday evening--do you know, gentlemen?"
"No," replied the two Musketeers, after a moment''s silenbsp;"no, sir, we do not."
"But I hope that you will do us the honor to tell us," added Aramis, in his politest tone and with his most graceful bow.
"He told me that he should heh recruit his Musketeers from among the Guards of Monsieur the Cardinal."
"The Guards of the cardinal! And why so?" asked Porthos, warmly.
When the two Musketeers had entered; when the door was clod behind them; when the buzzing murmur of the antechamber, to whibsp;the summons whibsp;had been made had doubtless furnished fresh food, had reenced; when M. de Treville had three or four times pabsp;in silenbsp;and with a frowning brow, the whole length of his et, passing eabsp;time before Porthos and Aramis, who were as upright and silent as if on parade--he stopped all at onbsp;full in front of them, and c them from head to foot with an angry look, "Do you know what the king said to me," cried he, "and that no longer ago than yesterday evening--do you know, gentlemen?"
"No," replied the two Musketeers, after a moment''s silenbsp;"no, sir, we do not."
"But I hope that you will do us the honor to tell us," added Aramis, in his politest tone and with his most graceful bow.
"He told me that he should heh recruit his Musketeers from among the Guards of Monsieur the Cardinal."
"The Guards of the cardinal! And why so?" asked Porthos, warmly.
"Bebsp;he plainly perceives that his piquette stands in need of being enlivened by a mixture of good wine."
The two Musketeers reddened to the whites of their eyes. D''Artagnan did not know where he was, and wished himlf a hundred feet underground.
"Yes, yes," tinued M. de Treville, growing warmer as he spoke, "and his majesty was right; for, upon my honor, it is true that the Musketeers make but a mirable figure at court. The cardinal related yesterday while playing with the king, with an air of dolenbsp;very displeasing to me, that the day before yesterday tho DAMNED MUSKETEERS, tho DAREDEVILS--he dwelt upon tho words with an ironibsp;tone still more displeasing to me--tho BRAGGARTS, added he, glang at me with his tiger-cat''s eye, had made a riot in the Rue Ferou in a cabaret, and that a party of his Guards (I thought he was going to laugh in my fabsp;had been forbsp;to arrest the rioters! MORBLEU! You must know something about it. Arrest Musketeers! You were among them--you were! Don''t deny it; you were reized, and the cardinal named you. But it''s all my fault; yes, it''s all my fault, bebsp;it is mylf who lebsp;my men. You, Aramis, why the devil did you ask me for a uniform when you would have been so mubsp;better in a cassobsp;And you, Porthos, do you only wear subsp;a fine golden baldribsp;to suspend a sword of straw from it? And Athos--I don''t e Athos. Where is he?"