And he left with Aramis.
Then D'Artagnan, taking Porthos's arm, "What has this tailor done for you, my dear Porthos," he asked, "that you are so pleased with him ?" "What has he done for me, my friend! done for me!" cried Porthos, enthusiastically.
"Yes, I ask you, what has he done for you ?" "My friend, he has done that which no tailor ever yet accomplished: he has taken my measure without touching me!" "Ah, bah! tell me how he did it." "First, then, they went, I don't know where, for a number of lay figures, of all heights and sizes, hoping there would be one to suit mine, but the largest--that of the drum-major of the Swiss guard--was two inches too short, and a half foot too narrow in the chest." "Indeed!" "It is exactly as I tell you, D'Artagnan; but he is a great man, or at the very least a great tailor, is this M.Moliere.He was not at all put at fault by the circumstance." "What did he do, then ?" "Oh! it is a very simple matter.

I'faith, 'tis an unheard-of thing that people should have been so stupid as not to have discovered this method from the first.

What annoyance and humiliation they would have spared me!" "Not to mention of the costumes, my dear Porthos." "Yes, thirty dresses." "Well, my dear Porthos, come, tell me M.Moliere's plan." "Moliere?
You call him so, do you?
I shall make a point of recollecting his name." "Yes; or Poquelin, if you prefer that." "No; I like Moliere best.

When I wish to recollect his name, I shall think of _voliere_ [an aviary]; and as I have one at Pierrefonds--" "Capital!" returned D'Artagnan.

"And M.Moliere's plan ?" "'Tis this: instead of pulling me to pieces, as all these rascals do--of making me bend my back, and double my joints--all of them low and dishonorable practices--" D'Artagnan made a sign of approbation with his head.