I announced to your majesty that I had arrested Monsieur Fouquet." "You did; and what then ?" "Well! I ought to have told your majesty that M.Fouquet had arrested me; that would have been more just.

I re-establish the truth, then; I have been arrested by M.Fouquet." It was now the turn of Louis XIV.

to be surprised.

His majesty was astonished in his turn.
D'Artagnan, with his quick glance, appreciated what was passing in the heart of his master.

He did not allow him time to put any questions.