The Three Musketeers (The D'Artagnan Romances, #1)

by Alexandre Dumas

“Pardieu, as if I didn’t!” replied d’Artagnan, who knew nothing at all about it, but wanted to have the air of being in the know.

“Do you know who abducted your wife?” “No, Monseigneur.” “You have suspicions, however?” “Yes, Monseigneur, but these suspicions seem to have displeased M. le commissaire, and I no longer have them.”

“It’s he!” cried Bonacieux. “He who?” asked the cardinal. “The one who abducted my wife!” The cardinal rang a second time. The officer reappeared. “Put this man back into the hands of his two guards, and let him wait until I summon him before me.” “No, Monseigneur, no, it’s not him!” cried Bonacieux. “No, I was wrong: it was somebody else who doesn’t resemble him at all! Monsieur is an honest man.”