Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 11 Page 15

“I am for no one.”

“That is to say, you are for us. Well, I tell you that I come to you from the cardinal.”

This speech was heard by Porthos in the same sense as if it had still been in the year 1640 and related to the true cardinal.

“Ho! ho! What are the wishes of his eminence?”

“He wishes to have you in his service.”

“And who spoke to him of me?”

“Rochefort — you remember him?”

“Yes, pardieu!

It was he who gave us so much trouble and kept us on the road so much; you gave him three sword-wounds in three separate engagements.”