That magic word "fortune" always means something in the human ear.

It means _enough_ for those who have nothing; it means _too much_ for those who have enough.
"I shall be made a duke!" said Porthos, aloud.

He was speaking to himself.
"That is possible," replied Aramis, smiling after his own fashion, as Porthos's horse passed him.

Aramis felt, notwithstanding, as though his brain were on fire; the activity of the body had not yet succeeded in subduing that of the mind.

All there is of raging passion, mental toothache or mortal threat, raged, gnawed and grumbled in the thoughts of the unhappy prelate.