Aramis then joined Athos and D’Artagnan, who were consulting together.
“Come,” said D’Artagnan, after a conference of five minutes’ duration, “let us begin our journey.”
“Where are we to go?” asked Porthos.
“To your house, dear Porthos, at Pierrefonds; your fine chateau is worthy of affording its princely hospitality to his eminence; it is, likewise, well situated — neither too near Paris, nor too far from it; we can establish a communication between it and the capital with great facility. Come, my lord, you shall be treated like a prince, as you are.”
“A fallen prince!” exclaimed Mazarin, piteously.
“The chances of war,”