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A Man in the Iron Mask

ChapterII
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"I see--that spared you both time and humiliation." "Consider my joy when, after a year and a half's judicious feeding--for I used to feed him up myself--the fellow--" "Oh! I lent a good hand myself, monsieur," said Mouston, humbly.
"That's true.

Consider my joy when, one morning, I perceived Mouston was obliged to squeeze in, as I once did myself, to get through the little secret door that those fools of architects had made in the chamber of the late Madame du Vallon, in the chateau of Pierrefonds.

And, by the way, about that door, my friend, I should like to ask you, who know everything, why these wretches of architects, who ought to have the compasses run into them, just to remind them, came to make doorways through which nobody but thin people can pass ?" "Oh, those doors," answered D'Artagnan, "were meant for gallants, and they have generally slight and slender figures." "Madame du Vallon had no gallant!" answered Porthos, majestically.
"Perfectly true, my friend," resumed D'Artagnan; "but the architects were probably making their calculations on a basis of the probability of your marrying again." "Ah! that is possible," said Porthos.

"And now I have received an explanation of how it is that doorways are made too narrow, let us return to the subject of Mouston's fatness.

But see how the two things apply to each other.


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