![]() ![]() ![]() I placed my savings with Planchet, who pays me the interest of them." "No, thank you I am not in want of anything. "Ah! but perhaps you want money - do you?" said Porthos, making something like fifty louis chink in his pocket. "My friend, you know that it is not for a fortnight my house is open to you it is for a year - for ten years - for life." I had heard talk of the happy division you had made of your time, and I wished, for a fortnight, to divide mine after your fashion." Then, feeling myself free, I set off for Pierrefonds, to see my friend Porthos. "I know that well enough, parbleu! Only, at the period of his death, my resignation had been given in and accepted two months. Mazarin had disgusted me for a long time, as you know so I threw my cassock to the nettles." "And what led you to form such a resolution." Porthos raised his arms towards heaven, like a man who has heard extraordinary news. "You are wrong, my friend I have given in my resignation." ![]()
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