D'Artagnan, the King Maker — page 52: what you’re looking at

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To Portugal. 43 drink in six, namely, French, Gascon and its allied dia- lects, Spanish, German, Italian and the seaman’s odd lingo.” “T see that while others in our outlandish campaigns picked up earnings, you picked up learning,” said the statesman, yielding to the punning propensity which great men indulged in, singular to a later breed of critics. “TI foresee that you will, from a conversational point, enjoy your turn-out-to-grass !” “But I am ignorant of Portuguese,’ concluded D’Ar- tagnan. “The upper class use Spanish as the court language. The clergy, Latin. The common orders, close and dogged, says my Secretary Crosnier, like the Atlantes in all lands who support the high stories, use but five hundred words as a current vocabulary.” “My lord, in three months, I will hobnob, then, with Goodman José like this oldest ‘boon companion.” “For the last time, good! I know you are the same on hill as in hall. Will such a lazy saunter be costly?” “Your eminence, when the wheel is well greased, the cart goes farther. Moreover, the ungreased wheel calls attention by its squeaking.” “You shall have no stint. Show this signet of mine to my treasurer or the king’s, and draw whatever you deem sufficient. When, on the last day of February next, you are at the Petrel, my messenger will supply you freshly and to any amount for the enterprise for which you, my captain and trusted friend, consider Portugal a favorable field.” Not often had Richelieu called one his friend, less often his trusted one, and rarely shown what was his friendly trust by allowing him to carry out a project of his, practically on his own impulse, with unlimited funds. D’Artagnan bowed, with moisture about his eyes. “Oh! I am well aware that gentlemen of the sword despise the purse, which has its potency, believe me. Is there not an olden couplet as the tag for it? Let me see? “Tt is the sword doth order all! ‘Tt—it—mum-mum-mum— ” GOmMiGdookssco im