“Me! nothing, monsieur.”
“You said, ‘Good God!’“
“Did I?”
“I am sure you did. Can you already understand?”
“I confess, M. d’Artagnan, that I am afraid — ”
“To understand?”
“Yes.”
“To understand that I wish to replace upon his throne this King Charles II., who has no throne? Is that it?”
Planchet made a prodigious bound in his chair. “Ah, ah!” said he, in evident terror, “that is what you call a restoration!”