Ten Years Later: The Man in The Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 52 Page 14

“I will take exceeding good care not to avail myself of it, captain.”

“And why not, pray?”

“Oh, for many reasons — in the first place, for this: if I were to succeed you in the musketeers after having arrested you — ”

“Ah! then you admit you have arrested me?”

“No, I don’t.”

“Say met me, then. So, you were saying if you were to succeed me after having arrested me?”

“Your musketeers, at the first exercise with ball cartridges, would fire my way, by mistake.”

“Oh, as to that I won’t say; for the fellows do love me a little.”