Chapter 70
D'Artagnan immediately took the offensive. "Now that I have told you all, dear friend, or rather you have guessed all, tell me what you are doing here, covered with dust and mud?" Porthos wiped his brow, and looked around him with pride. "Why, it appears," said he, "that you may see what I am doing here." "No doubt, no doubt, you lift great stones." "Oh! to show these idle fellows what a man is," said Porthos, with contempt. "But you understand - " "Yes, that is not your place to lift stones, although there are many whose place it is, who cannot lift them as you do. It was that which made me ask you, just now. What are you doing here, baron?" "I am studying topography, chevalier." "You are studying topography?" "Yes; but you - what are you doing in that common dress?" D'Artagnan pe
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