“Well?”
“Nothing,” replied Aramis, “nothing.”
“So you renounce the world, then, forever; that is a settled thing — a resolution registered!”
“Forever! You are my friend today; tomorrow you will be no more to me than a shadow, or rather, even, you will no longer exist. As for the world, it is a sepulcher and nothing else.”
“The devil! All this is very sad which you tell me.”
“What will you? My vocation commands me; it carries me away.”
D’Artagnan smiled, but made no answer.
Aramis continued, “And yet, while I do belong to the earth, I wish to speak of you —