This point, settled, the duke turned to d'Artagnan.
"Now, my young friend," said he, "England is all our own.

What do you wish for?
What do you desire ?" "A bed, my Lord," replied d'Artagnan.

"At present, I confess, that is the thing I stand most in need of." Buckingham gave d'Artagnan a chamber adjoining his own.

He wished to have the young man at hand--not that he at all mistrusted him, but for the sake of having someone to whom he could constantly talk of the queen.
In one hour after, the ordinance was published in London that no vessel bound for France should leave port, not even the packet boat with letters.

In the eyes of everybody this was a declaration of war between the two kingdoms.
On the day after the morrow, by eleven o'clock, the two diamond studs were finished, and they were so completely imitated, so perfectly alike, that Buckingham could not tell the new ones from the old ones, and experts in such matters would have been deceived as he was.