"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--"
--„De heer Athos was een zijner vrienden gaan bezoeken,” hernam de heer de Tréville, „een jongen Bearneeschen kadet bij de gardes Uwer Majesteit, in de kompagnie van mijnheer des Essarts, doch de kadet was op dat oogenblik afwezig; nauwelijks had hij zich in de kamer zijns vriends, hem afwachtende, tot lezen neergezet, of een zwerm van gerechtsdienaars en soldaten kwam het huis belegeren en de deuren openstooten.”