His salutation was principally addressed to De Wardes, with whom he was unacquainted, and whose features, on his perceiving Raoul, had assumed a strange sternness of expression.

"I have come, De Guiche," he said, "to ask your companionship.

We set off for Le Havre, I presume." "This is admirable--delightful.

We shall have a most enjoyable journey.
M.Malicorne, M.Bragelonne--ah! M.de Wardes, let me present you." The young men saluted each other in a restrained manner.

Their very natures seemed, from the beginning, disposed to take exception to each other.