It is the first time, and there is a custom in our family." "What is it, my friend ?" "My grandfather was a man twice as strong as I am." "Indeed!" said Aramis; "then your grandfather must have been Samson himself." "No; his name was Antoine.

Well! he was about my age, when, setting out one day for the chase, he felt his legs weak, the man who had never known what weakness was before." "What was the meaning of that fatigue, my friend ?" "Nothing good, as you will see; for having set out, complaining still of weakness of the legs, he met a wild boar, which made head against him; he missed him with his arquebuse, and was ripped up by the beast and died immediately." "There is no reason in that why you should alarm yourself, dear Porthos." "Oh! you will see.

My father was as strong again as I am.

He was a rough soldier, under Henry III.

and Henry IV.; his name was not Antoine, but Gaspard, the same as M.de Coligny.