“Well?”
“Well! I wish to be a marechal; the king will make me marechal, duke, peer; the king will make me all that.”
Aramis fixed a searching look upon D’Artagnan.
“Is not the king master?” said D’Artagnan.
“No one disputes it; but Louis XIII. was master also.”
“Oh! my dear friend, between Richelieu and Louis XIII. stood no D’Artagnan,” said the musketeer, very quietly.
“There are many stumbling-blocks round the king,” said Aramis.
“Not for the king’s feet.”
“Very likely not; still —