[A Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandra Dumas]@TWC D-Link bookA Man in the Iron Mask ChapterXIV 10/17
He has a chamber to himself, but I don't know where." "Very good!" said the musketeer; from whom this separation of the two associates removed his last suspicion, and he touched Porthos lightly on the shoulder; the latter replied by a loud yawn.
"Come," said D'Artagnan. "What, D'Artagnan, my dear fellow, is that you? What a lucky chance! Oh, yes--true; I have forgotten; I am at the _fete_ at Vaux." "Yes; and your beautiful dress, too." "Yes, it was very attentive on the part of Monsieur Coquelin de Voliere, was it not ?" "Hush!" said Aramis.
"You are walking so heavily you will make the flooring give way." "True," said the musketeer; "this room is above the dome, I think." "And I did not choose it for a fencing-room, I assure you," added the bishop.
"The ceiling of the king's room has all the lightness and calm of wholesome sleep.
Do not forget, therefore, that my flooring is merely the covering of his ceiling.
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