"Thank you," said the cardinal, biting his lips with anger. "Athos, then, went to pay a visit to one of his friends absent at the time," continued Treville, "to a young Bearnais, a cadet in his Majesty’s Guards, the company of Monsieur Dessessart, but scarcely had he arrived at his friend’s and taken up a book, while waiting his return, when a mixed crowd of bailiffs and soldiers came and laid siege to the house, broke open several doors--"
-- M. Athos était donc allé rendre visite à l'un de ses amis alors absent, continua M. de Tréville, à un jeune Béarnais, cadet aux gardes de Sa Majesté, compagnie des Essarts; mais à peine venait- il de s'installer chez son ami et de prendre un livre en l'attendant, qu'une nuée de recors et de soldats mêlés ensemble vint faire le siège de la maison, enfonça plusieurs portes...»