Ten Years Later: Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 3 Page 9

you could not guess, I say, that the king sent me to learn who this man was?”

“What! the king sent you to learn — ”

“Of course; but don’t let us speak of that any more.”

“Not speak of it!” said Porthos; “on the contrary, we will speak of it; and so the king knew that we were fortifying Belle-Isle?”

“Of course; does not the king know everything?”

“But he did not know who was fortifying it?”

“No, he only suspected, from what he had been told of the nature of the works, that it was some celebrated soldier or another.”

“The devil!”