It may be supposed that his desire to hear the conversation was augmented by this discovery. His eyes took a strange expression, and with the step of a tiger-cat he advanced toward the hedge; but he had not been able to catch more than a few vague syllables without any positive sense, when a sonorous and short cry made him start, and attracted the attention of the Musketeers.
On juge si son désir d'entendre la conversation s'augmenta de cette découverte; ses yeux prirent une expression étrange, et d'un pas de chat-tigre il s'avança vers la haie; mais il n'avait pu saisir encore que des syllabes vagues et sans aucun sens positif, lorsqu'un cri sonore et bref le fit tressaillir et attira l'attention des mousquetaires.