They ordered the lackeys not to unsaddle the horses, and to hold themselves in readiness to set off again immediately.
They entered the common hall, and placed themselves at table.

A gentleman, who had just arrived by the route of Dammartin, was seated at the same table, and was breakfasting.

He opened the conversation about rain and fine weather; the travelers replied.

He drank to their good health, and the travelers returned his politeness.
But at the moment Mousqueton came to announce that the horses were ready, and they were arising from table, the stranger proposed to Porthos to drink the health of the cardinal.

Porthos replied that he asked no better if the stranger, in his turn, would drink the health of the king.