Ten Years Later: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 3 Page 16

“Too great, my friend, too great.”

“Ah! I had heard that, for a short time after your arrival — ”

“That I could hardly move a limb, I suppose?”

“How was it?” said D’Artagnan, smiling, “and why was it you could not move?”

Porthos, perceiving that he had made a mistake, wished to correct it. “Yes, I came from Belle-Isle upon very hard horses,” he said, “and that fatigued me.”

“I am no longer astonished, then, since I, who followed you, found seven or eight lying dead on the road.”

“I am very heavy, you know,” said Porthos.