Part 14 (1/2)
”Why, this gentleman is one of M Percerin's chief clerks, and is expected at Saint-Mande to try on the dresses which M Fouquet has ordered for the Epicureans”
”'Tis precisely so,” said Moliere
”Yes, monsieur”
”Come, then, my dear M Moliere,” said Aramis, ”that is, if you have done with M du Vallon”
”We have finished,” replied Porthos
”And you are satisfied?” asked D'Artagnan
”Completely so,” replied Porthos
Moliere took his leave of Porthos with rasped the hand which the captain of the musketeers furtively offered hily, ”above all, be exact”
”You will have your dress the day after to-morrow, monsieur le baron,”
answered Moliere And he left with Ara Porthos's arm, ”What has this tailor done for you, my dear Porthos,” he asked, ”that you are so pleased with him?”
”What has he done for me, my friend! done for me!” cried Porthos, enthusiastically
”Yes, I ask you, what has he done for you?”
”My friend, he has done that which no tailor ever yet acco me!”
”Ah, bah! tell me how he did it”
”First, then, they went, I don't knohere, for a nu there would be one to suit uard--o inches too short, and a half foot too narrow in the chest”
”Indeed!”
”It is exactly as I tell you, D'Artagnan; but he is a great reat tailor, is this M Moliere He was not at all put at fault by the circumstance”
”What did he do, then?”
”Oh! it is a very si that people should have been so stupid as not to have discovered this method from the first What annoyance and humiliation they would have spared me!”
”Not to mention of the costumes, my dear Porthos”
”Yes, thirty dresses”
”Well, my dear Porthos, come, tell me M Moliere's plan”