“True. And yet you smelt me out over yonder?”
“Oh! yes.”
“And Porthos, too?”
“I did not divine that Aramis was an engineer. I was only able to guess that Porthos might have become one. There is a saying, one becomes an orator, one is born a poet; but it has never been said, one is born Porthos, and one becomes an engineer.”
“Your wit is always amusing,” said Aramis, coldly.
“Well, I will go on.”
“Do. When you found out our secret, you made all the haste you could to communicate it to the king.”
“I certainly made as much haste as