“Certainly not.”

“It is your own interest alone which would induce me to do it.”

“I don’t doubt it in the least.”

“Well, I am the intimate friend of the king; and a proof of that is, that whenever there is anything disagreeable to tell him, it is I who have to do it.”

“But, dear D’Artagnan, if you present me — ”

“Well!”

“Aramis will be angry.”

“With me?”

“No, with me.”

“Bah!

whether he or I present you, since you are to be presented, what does it matter?”