Part 36 (1/2)
”Of forty ainst forty thousand! that is not enough I know very well that you, M d'Artagnan, alone, are equal to a thousand men; but where are we to find thirty-nine men equal to you? Or, if we could find them, ould furnish you with money to pay them?”
”Not bad, Planchet Ah, the devil! you play the courtier”
”No, monsieur, I speak what I think, and that is exactly why I say that, in the first pitched battle you fight with your forty ht no pitched battles,”We have very fine examples in antiquity of skillful retreats andthe ene them You should know that, Planchet, you who coht against the musketeers, and who so well calculated marches and countermarches, that you never left the Palais Royal”
Planchet could not help laughing ”It is plain,” replied he, ”that if your forty men conceal themselves, and are not unskillful, theysome result, do you not?”
”No doubt This, then, in my opinion, is the plan to be proceeded upon in order quickly to replace his majesty Charles II on his throne”
”Good!” said Planchet, increasing his attention; ”let us see your plan
But in the first place it see”
”What is that?”
”We have set aside the nation, which prefers singing ht; but the parliaht How is it, Planchet, that an intelligent man like yourself should take any heed of a set of brawlers who call themselves Rumps and Barebones? The parliament does not trouble me at all, Planchet”
”As soon as it ceases to trouble you, monsieur, let us pass on”
”Yes, and arrive at the result You rereat deal of talk about hih soldier”
”And a terrible eater, moreover”
”What do you land”
”Well, Planchet, the evening before the day on which he sed England, if any one had sed M Cromwell?”
”Oh, monsieur, it is one of the axioreater than the contained”
”Very well! That is our affair, Planchet”
”But M Cromwell is dead, and his container is now the tomb”
”My dear Planchet, I see with pleasure that you have not only become a rocery business I use much printed paper, and that instructs me”
”Bravo! You know then, in that case--for you have not learnt mathematics and philosophy without a little history--that after this Croreat, there came one as very little”
”Yes; he was nanan--he has tendered his resignation”