replied the hotelier, uncorking the bottle, “the boat will not leave this hour.”
“But who will give me notice?” said the poet.
“Your fellow-traveler,” replied the host.
“But I scarcely know him.”
“When you hear him departing, it will be time for you to go.”
“Is he going to Belle-Isle, likewise, then?”
“Yes.”
“The traveler who has a lackey?” asked D’Artagnan. “He is some gentleman, no doubt?”
“I know nothing of him.”
“What! —