"Come, explain yourself," he said, "and tell me how you could possibly utter such a blasphemy.

M.d'Herblay, your old master, my friend, an ecclesiastic, a musketeer turned bishop--do you mean to say you would raise your sword against him, Planchet ?" "I could raise my sword against my own father, when I see you in such a state as you are now." "M.

d'Herblay, a gentleman!" "It's all the same to me whether he's a gentleman or not.

He gives you the blue devils, that is all I know.

And the blue devils make people get thin.