“Who caused you to suppose so?”

“Just as you, monsieur, are too respectful for a friend, he was also too respectful for a father.”

“I, however,” said Aramis, “have no intention to disguise myself.”

The young man nodded assent and continued: “Undoubtedly, I was not destined to perpetual seclusion,” said the prisoner; “and that which makes me believe so, above all, now, is the care that was taken to render me as accomplished a cavalier as possible.

The gentleman attached to my person taught me everything he knew himself — mathematics, a little geometry, astronomy, fencing and riding. Every morning I went through military exercises, and practiced on