“Of posterity, Monsieur d’Artagnan?”
“Doubtless. It is necessary, as regards posterity, that all the details of that history should remain a mystery; for, admit that this unfortunate history of the deal box should spread, and it should be asserted that you had not re-established the king loyally, and of your own free will, but in consequence of a compromise entered into at Scheveningen between you two. It would be vain for me to declare how the thing came about, for though I know I should not be believed, it would be said that I had received my part of the cake, and was eating it.”
Monk knitted his brow. — ”Glory, honor, probity!” said he, “you are but empty words.”
“Mist!” replied D’Artagnan;