“to help you in taking care of your prisoners.”
There could be no fault to find with this arrangement; on the contrary, it seemed to be a delicate attention, to be gratefully received; D’Artagnan, therefore, thanked the man and gave him a crown piece to drink to General Cromwell’s health.
The sergeant answered that Puritans never drank, and put the crown piece in his pocket.
“Ah!” said Porthos, “what a fearful day, my dear D’Artagnan!”
“What!
a fearful day, when to-day we find our friends?”
“Yes; but under what circumstances?”
“‘Tis true that our position is an awkward one; but let us go in and see more clearly what is to be done.”