How the devil could I imagine that Aramis had become so clever an engineer as to be able to fortify like Polybius, or Archimedes ?" "True.

And yet you smelt me out over yonder ?" "Oh! yes." "And Porthos, too ?" "I did not divine that Aramis was an engineer.

I was only able to guess that Porthos might have become one.

There is a saying, one becomes an orator, one is born a poet; but it has never been said, one is born Porthos, and one becomes an engineer." "Your wit is always amusing," said Aramis, coldly.
"Well, I will go on." "Do.

When you found out our secret, you made all the haste you could to communicate it to the king." "I certainly made as much haste as I could, since I saw that you were making still more.