Part 34 (1/2)
”Good heavens! is that possible?”
”I think it will be nan coolly; ”but I like to lay it at the lowest!”
”The devil!” said Planchet, drawing nearer ”Why, nificent! Can one put much money in it?”
”Twenty thousand livres each, Planchet”
”Why, that is all you have,a tiive us--”
”Fifty thousand livres each, profit”
”It is ht for such interest as that!”
”In fact, I believe it will be necessary to fight not a little,” said D'Artagnan, with the same tranquillity; ”but this time there are two of us, Planchet, and I shall take all the blows to myself”
”Oh! monsieur, I will not allow that”
”Planchet, you cannot be concerned in it; you would be obliged to leave your business and your family”
”The affair is not in Paris, then”
”No”
”Abroad?”
”In England”
”A speculative country, that is true,” said Planchet,--”a country that I knoell What sort of an affair, monsieur, without too much curiosity?”
”Planchet, it is a restoration”
”Of monuments?”
”Yes, of monuments; we shall restore Whitehall”
”That is important And in a month, you think?”
”I shall undertake it”
”That concerns you, ed--”
”Yes, that concerns me I knohat I am about; nevertheless, I will freely consult with you”