We shall take the measure of this reflection.'" "In fact," said D'Artagnan, "you saw yourself in the glass; but where did they find one in which you could see your whole figure ?" "My good friend, it is the very glass in which the king is used to look to see himself." "Yes; but the king is a foot and a half shorter than you are." "Ah! well, I know not how that may be; it is, no doubt, a cunning way of flattering the king; but the looking-glass was too large for me.
'Tis true that its height was made up of three Venetian plates of glass, placed one above another, and its breadth of three similar parallelograms in juxtaposition." "Oh, Porthos! what excellent words you have command of.

Where in the word did you acquire such a voluminous vocabulary ?" "At Belle-Isle.

Aramis and I had to use such words in our strategic studies and castramentative experiments." D'Artagnan recoiled, as though the sesquipedalian syllables had knocked the breath out of his body.
"Ah! very good.

Let us return to the looking-glass, my friend." "Then, this good M.Voliere--" "Moliere." "Yes--Moliere--you are right.

You will see now, my dear friend, that I shall recollect his name quite well.