“Silence! I tell you — silence! If he only believes you can read; if he only suspects you have understood; I love you, my dear friends, I would willingly be killed for you, but — ”

“But — ” said Athos and Raoul.

“But I could not save you from perpetual imprisonment if I saved you from death.

Silence, then! Silence again!”

The governor came up, having crossed the ditch upon a plank bridge.

“Well!” said he to D’Artagnan, “what stops us?”

“You are Spaniards — you do not understand a word of French,” said the captain, eagerly, to his friends in a low voice.