"I," said Aramis, in his most flutelike tone, "I had made up my mind. If he had insisted upon the letter being given up to him, I would have presented the letter to him with one hand, and with the other I would have run my sword through his body."
--„Ik,” zeide Aramis, „had reeds een besluit genomen; indien hij den brief geëischt had, zou ik hem dien hebben aangeboden met de eene hand, terwijl ik hem met de andere aan mijn degen zou hebben geregen.”