D'Artagnan, the King Maker — page 214: what you’re looking at

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A Waive. 201 “Keep the receipt! you may collect some day! I have the like for the creature I rode! Those steeds will be useful ‘for the deserters to get home to Madrid!” “Oth, you think the garrison will desert?” “I think that Pedro has able agents in the city. But tell me a “What ?” “Where you found a tailor to make you a costume so quickly. I will give him my custom for a court suit and my captain’s coat of Portuguese Musketeers when I am champion at Don Juan’s coronation.” “Oh, I could not find an expeditious tailor,” said Porthos, in a burst of shame-faced confidence. ‘Then one of those circumnavigators who discovered Patagonia, land of Anak, brought home the big chief’s costume i “No,” returned the Lord of du Vallon, humiliated at the idea of wearing second-hand clothes, “it was this way: At Braga, which is is “A suburb of Oporto——” “A cathedral town of itself, I commanded a detach- - ment to bring in some church bells which had fallen and were useless from cracks, except to recast, so I proposed their being made into cannon for the siege of Lisbon. The prince said that I should go after the metal, since the devout would not handle church property. While there I hobnobbed with a man of my inches, who was the beadle of the church. On holidays the beadle wears a uniform which is “Which is thinly trimmed with gold lace and scantily supplied with bright buttons,” said D’Artagnan. “Quite the other way, for you are joking. It 1s pro- fusely adorned with lace and braid,” said the other sim- ply. “But I did not regard the trimmings. Coat and undercoat, they fitted me to a charm, though they were brand-new and had never been tried on him. Now, this tall fellow was a man from Murcia, and he vowed that he would never officiate where the rulers were Portu- guese, so he gladly transferred the attire to me.” “T shall be delighted to see you as a cathedral porter! With the gold-knobbed cane you will plainly be taken for a drum-major. Madame du Vallon will be enchanted GEomichooksnco