he asked at last, very likely after he had found out what he was searching for.
“Not always.”
“I can imagine that; but when you get thoroughly bored, by and by, what do you intend to do?”
“Oh!
I shall not be here for any length of time. Aramis is waiting until the last bump on my head disappears, in order to present me to the king, who I am told cannot endure the sight of a bump.”
“Aramis is still in Paris, then?”
“No.”
“Whereabouts is he, then?”
“At Fontainebleau.”