Part 37 (1/2)
”Monsieur, I declare the idea is sublime But--”
”Ah! is there a but?”
”Permit me! But this is a little like the skin of that fine bear--you know--that they were about to sell, but which it was necessary to take fro bear Now, to take M Monk, there will be a bit of a scuffle, I should think”
”No doubt; but as I shall raise an army to--”
”Yes, yes--I understand, parbleu!--a coup-de-main Yes, then, monsieur, you will triumph, for no one equals you in such sorts of encounters”
”I certainly anan, with a proud simplicity ”You know that if for this affair I hadAramis, the business would be settled; but they are all lost, as it appears, and nobody knohere to find theood, and the investeous?”
”Too much so--too s never reach the expected point”
”This is infallible, Planchet, and the proof is that I undertake it It will be for you a tolerably pretty gain, and forstroke It will be said, 'Such was the old age of M d'Artagnan,' and I shall hold a place in tales and even in history itself, Planchet I areedy of honor”
”Monsieur,” cried Planchet, ”when I think that it is here, in ar, antic project is ripened, my shop seems a palace to me”
”Beware, beware, Planchet! If the least report of this escapes, there is the Bastile for both of us Beware,M Monk is the ally of M Mazarin--beware!”
”Monsieur, when aof fear; and when he has had the advantage of being bound up in interests with you, he holds his tongue”
”Very well; that isthat in a week I shall be in England”
”Depart, monsieur, depart--the sooner the better”
”Is the money, then, ready?”
”It will be to-morrow; to-morrow you shall receive it froold or silver?”
”Gold; that is e this?
Let us see”
”Oh, good Lord! in the siive nan, wars”
”That is likewise nan--”
”And if I should die yonder--if I should be killed by abeer?”
”Monsieur, I beg you to believe that in that case I should be so much afflicted at your death, that I should not think about the money”
”Thank you, Planchet; but no ether an agreement, a sort of act, which ly,up, but we can try”